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Nazifurs and You: How to Not Be Complicit
3 months ago
The best thing you can do when being commissioned is being aware of nazifur groups and doing a quick name search to check if they're a nazifur - and then declining them if they are one.
The second best thing you can do after being commissioned by a nazifur and finding that out afterwards (they tend to hide the fact that they're nazifurs because they are cowards) is to just delete the offending images from your gallery.
And while not everyone is always in the financial situation to do so, it is highly encouraged that you send their money back. If they can litigate because their "feewings" got hurt (remember that they are manipulative scum), they will.
If necessary, you can even DMCA them if they ever try reposting your work. They do not own your illustrations. They do not own the copyrights to your work.
In fact, just deleting the commissions spends less time and energy than writing up a cringing thousand-something-word essay defending your inaction.
But instead you spin up some sob story PR campaign (while weirdly focusing on the fact that prior customers want nothing to do with you anymore) and say:
"...you do it best by formally DMing them--since you're asking for their time and attention--bringing a concise commentary and backing up claims with convincing arguments. Not by putting them in crosshairs, dropping dunk-lines, rants, or unsolicited warnings right in their public-facing lobby, their shout pages, etc., where you can maximize your chances of being seen by everyone."
...but that's the whole point. People warning others of nazifurs want their message to be seen by everyone. You've already been notified in person and haven't taken action (your journal was posted only after it all came to light). The nazifur commissions are still in your gallery, days after the fact.
As a reminder: nazifurs and their ideology is explicitly at odds with our way of life - they want us dead simply because of our sexualities, genders, races, and even for being furries. And no, being anti-fascist, or "Antifa", doesn't make one the instigator/oppressor - or whatever DARVO rhetoric a cowardly fascist would pull.
Another apologist (perhaps even a cryptofascist) also commented:
"And what's wrong with taking money from them anyway?"
You're not just taking money from nazifurs. You're trading your goods/services in exchange for their money. If it was as simple as findomming the fash into submission, then that would be that - however this is not the case, as you're producing more imagery that depicts their nazifur OCs. This simultaneously validates their misanthropic beliefs and also popularises them by direct association. More art of them enables them.
TL;DR: Fuck off nazi furs.
(I generally try to focus on having fun so I tend to not be overtly political, but I will not sit idly by without saying things that are needed to be said - the correct and first response to fascism is loud opposition)
-Maja
The second best thing you can do after being commissioned by a nazifur and finding that out afterwards (they tend to hide the fact that they're nazifurs because they are cowards) is to just delete the offending images from your gallery.
And while not everyone is always in the financial situation to do so, it is highly encouraged that you send their money back. If they can litigate because their "feewings" got hurt (remember that they are manipulative scum), they will.
If necessary, you can even DMCA them if they ever try reposting your work. They do not own your illustrations. They do not own the copyrights to your work.
In fact, just deleting the commissions spends less time and energy than writing up a cringing thousand-something-word essay defending your inaction.
But instead you spin up some sob story PR campaign (while weirdly focusing on the fact that prior customers want nothing to do with you anymore) and say:
"...you do it best by formally DMing them--since you're asking for their time and attention--bringing a concise commentary and backing up claims with convincing arguments. Not by putting them in crosshairs, dropping dunk-lines, rants, or unsolicited warnings right in their public-facing lobby, their shout pages, etc., where you can maximize your chances of being seen by everyone."
...but that's the whole point. People warning others of nazifurs want their message to be seen by everyone. You've already been notified in person and haven't taken action (your journal was posted only after it all came to light). The nazifur commissions are still in your gallery, days after the fact.
As a reminder: nazifurs and their ideology is explicitly at odds with our way of life - they want us dead simply because of our sexualities, genders, races, and even for being furries. And no, being anti-fascist, or "Antifa", doesn't make one the instigator/oppressor - or whatever DARVO rhetoric a cowardly fascist would pull.
Another apologist (perhaps even a cryptofascist) also commented:
"And what's wrong with taking money from them anyway?"
You're not just taking money from nazifurs. You're trading your goods/services in exchange for their money. If it was as simple as findomming the fash into submission, then that would be that - however this is not the case, as you're producing more imagery that depicts their nazifur OCs. This simultaneously validates their misanthropic beliefs and also popularises them by direct association. More art of them enables them.
TL;DR: Fuck off nazi furs.
(I generally try to focus on having fun so I tend to not be overtly political, but I will not sit idly by without saying things that are needed to be said - the correct and first response to fascism is loud opposition)
-Maja
I am curious zho who wrote zhat journal, if only so I can block em and make sure not to do business wizh zhem.
Unfortunately however I can't outright name the artist as that would violate FA's code of conduct. Website rules, in fact, is something nazifurs tend to abuse as a way to skirt the rules while harassing minorities. That all being said though, I don't think the artist in question is a nazifur; just someone who really doesn't think things through.