Furry Panic Is the Latest Dumb GOP Attack on Public Schools

[Jilly_in_VA]

It happened every time a school board member spoke up about changes to the Central York School District’s COVID-19 plan. “Meow!” a group of four people would taunt from the back of the room. “Cat!”

Amelia McMillan, a parent in the Pennsylvania district, recognized the four people. They’d supported Central York’s recent (and now overturned) ban on certain school books, many of them about race. After the mid-January meeting ended, McMillan said she saw the group corner a local father in a hallway.

“They were yelling at him about his kid being a furry,” McMillan told The Daily Beast. The group cited “an email someone sent to the board about furries. I heard him say, ‘Leave my kid out of this.’ Two administrators from the school broke up this interaction and shuffled the four aggressors out of the building, and then asked the father if he was alright. He told everyone standing there (myself included) that they were calling his child a furry and he asked them to stop.”

Furries are a subculture of people who craft alter-egos as anthropomorphized animals. A furry might draw himself as a cartoon tiger, or dress up as a dragon at a convention for fellow enthusiasts. It’s a decades-old genre and, relative to other available subcultures, fairly wholesome.

So why are school boards attendees in a panic about supposed furries in the classroom?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/furry-panic-is-the-latest-dumb-gop-attack-on-public-schools?ref=home
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Is there anything these idiots won't believe?

[lame54]

1. Furry fury

[Texasgal]

2. Yup! Happened right here in Austin, TX suburb

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-gop-candidate-furries-schools/

All I could do was laugh and wait for the memes on twitter!

[gratuitous]

3. And yet . . .

No matter how stupid the latest conservapanic is, there's someone who will come along and say that this will surely draw more voters to the Republican side, and the nation is doomed. The cold hard facts are that the former guy lost the popular vote by 2.8 million ballots in 2016, and 7.1 million in 2020. What's he done since then to suddenly make his prospective 2024 candidacy a winner? Oh, they're kicking down on kids! That's a look that's sure to be a winner and draw voters in droves!

[OhZone]

5. To most peeps they just look like crazy idiots when they do stuff like this!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. These attacks make no sense

[I_UndergroundPanther]

6. I was bullied relentlessly

In school because I was transgender. I had no word to express my situation back than. I got called a dyke and I had to ask my sister what a dyke was. I look back and yeah I was trans. I had boy clothes in 6th grade.

And the little brats
bullied me for being a cat inside too.
This was in the 70's and early 80's. And yes I wore cat ears and cat tails back than too.

I asked the school counselor why so many people hated me

She said because I exist.
Because you aren't afraid to be what you are. And you won't fit in and you don't want to fit in.


And those words by her helped me survive school.

The republican party is the pro abuse,pro bully psychopath party.

[Whiskeytide]

7. The furry fury is only to scare stupid parents into ...

… believing that the school system will turn their kids into furries … unless they vote for republicans. It’s no more complicated than that.

[sop]

8. The only furry I've seen recently was that QAnon Shaman guy.

[TheRealNorth]

9. Q-anon is a secret cabal of furries...

To force upon us a Feline Dictatorship. You heard it here first.

[lunatica]

10. That must be like being a Trekkie.