The friendly, apolitical, work-safe, welcoming, rose-tinted community from "back in the day", which varies in time frame from 5, to 10, 20, or 30+ years ago, never actually existed.https://twitter.com/caramelyote/status/1369720656707743747 …
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Meanwhile in Canada...a furry convention cheered up Syrian refugee kids. It's how we roll.https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/03/10/furries-convention-syrian-refugee-kids-vancouver_n_9432534.html …
That's my point. The "good old days" were never really particularly good in most niche communities. Or even the world as a whole. In the past 2 years I've seen more full-throated rejection of creeps and warming of the furry community toward marginalized people than ever before.