For a fandom that claims to be about loving and tolerating the things that bug them …
… MLP:FIM seems to be pretty good at being hella nasty to and about anyone who disagrees with it.
Aaaand this would be why I try not to involve myself in fandoms of any kind.
Not a fan of the show, but I like some artwork that I’ve seen. With that said yeah.. the MLP fandom from what I’ve seen is essentially fine with racism and ableism, and if you call this out they begin to be “hella nasty to and about anyone who disagrees with it”. Cause apparently racism and ableism is just ‘people getting mad over nothing’ and MLP can do no wrong :/
Unfortunately Avatar: The Last Airbender fandom has also seen a lot of whitewashing denying racist people lately; at least on tumblr. And a ton of tone arguments about how we should just ignore racism and ‘why can’t everyone get along’ spiels.
MLP fandom, particularly almost anyone who calls themselves a ‘brony’ is nasty as fuck, and Ponychan in particular needs to die in a fire. The only collection of decent fans I’ve found is the feminist MLP community on LJ, and that’s just sad.