Ep. 1351 - Students Protest As Their School Becomes Infested By Furries
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Summary
Students in Utah walked out of class in protest after their school became overrun by furries. The media has been denying that any of this is really happening, but it s real and the full story is even more bizarre than you think. Also, Joe Biden invented a story about his uncle being eaten by cannibals. Unsurprisingly, he s now being accused of cultural insensitivity. And Republicans want to send billions more to Ukraine. We must do this, says the speaker, because otherwise Putin will march on Europe and African migrants in New York attend a hearing to complain about the unsatisfactory accommodations. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, students in Utah walked out of class in protest after their school became overrun by furries.
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The media has been denying that any of this is really happening, but it's real and the full story is even more bizarre than you think.
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Also, Joe Biden invented a story about his uncle being eaten by cannibals.
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Unsurprisingly, he's now being accused of cultural insensitivity for making this story up.
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And Republicans want to send billions more to Ukraine.
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We must do this, says the speaker, because otherwise Putin will march on Europe.
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And African migrants in New York attend a hearing to complain about the unsatisfactory accommodations.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Let's try to follow the winding contours of this rather bizarre story.
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It begins earlier this week with students at Mount Nebo Middle School in Utah
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staging a walkout in protest of all the furries that administrators have allowed to infest the school.
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It began with a petition, which gained over 500 signatures in a few days,
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calling for the school to start enforcing its dress codes and stop allowing students to come to class dressed in their furry costumes.
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Adam Bartholomew, who is a local commentator in Utah, captured footage of the event and of the kids outside the school,
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talked to them and asked them what their complaints were.
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But every time they go, they're always just wearing a mask.
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But the principal finally stood up and banned those stuff.
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The principal doesn't make them get in trouble.
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And then, what's the point of dressing up like a furry?
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They think they're so cool that they want to be here.
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So people can come at them and just look at them and think that they're so cool.
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Also, are you guys going to be in trouble for walking out of school today?
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If we go back on school grounds, we will get in trouble.
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If we go back on school grounds, we will get in trouble.
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If we go back on school grounds, we're not people like this is wrong.
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If they bite us and we just kick them, we get in trouble.
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They either bite us, they scratch us, they bark at us.
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And then they run on all boards and pounce on people.
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They're biting and scratching and pouncing on people.
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Some of the students have had enough of this behavior.
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They want to go to school at a school, not at a petting zoo, and that's why they walked
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But then, the fact checkers leapt into action to throw cold water on this whole story,
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Nebo School District responds to claims about student protest over furries.
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A district spokesperson said the protest seemed to be organized after a message sent to families
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Now, what kind of misinterpretation can lead these students to think that there are a bunch
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of furries in school when there really aren't, supposedly?
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Like, and what could you have said in an email that people would mistranslate as a reference
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Quote, video of middle schoolers walking out of a Nebo School District school in Payson
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on Wednesday quickly spread in conservative social media circles with posts claiming the
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students were protesting because the district was allowing student furries to terrorize other
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Nebo School District spokesperson Seth Sorensen said that claim was false.
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He also said that students at the middle school are not wearing full-body animal costumes
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to class as furries, part of a subculture of people who sometimes dress up like animal
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characters but act like humans, are known to do.
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Dismissing the claim, Sorensen said the Wednesday protests seemed to be organized after a message
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the school sent to families last week was misinterpreted.
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The message was sent after a group of students had been targeting another group of students,
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saying things that were overheard by others that the administrators felt were inappropriate
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The group of students being targeted, he added, were students who sometimes come to school
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He said he doesn't think the targeted students necessarily refer to themselves as furries.
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So the spokesman says that there are no furries.
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I guess the kids are lying or somehow confused.
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There aren't any furries, but there might be some kids wearing animal ears to class for
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And those kids, he says, may or may not identify as furries.
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But then he goes on to admit that there have been altercations over people being,
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In one specific instance, the targeted students were sitting in a corner of the lunchroom,
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eating as a group of friends, when others began calling them names and throwing food
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at them because they were dressed differently, Sorensen told the Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday,
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After word of the altercation spread, the school sent an initial message to families last Friday,
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We expect all students to be respectful towards each other while we are here at the school.
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We hope you will treat others how you would like to be treated.
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The message stated, outstanding behavior might demonstrate curiosity, understanding, patience,
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But Sorensen said that he thinks some parents misinterpreted the note,
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incorrectly taking it as a message that the school was taking the side of a single group,
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saying, we want you to be this kind of group, but they don't have to be kind to anybody else.
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Nobody was taking the side of one group or another.
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He said, what we were saying is everyone needs to treat everyone else with respect.
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He says that the school isn't taking the side of a single group, quote, unquote.
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I thought that he said that there weren't any furries at the school, which group is he referring to?
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I thought the group in question doesn't exist at the school.
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Is he saying that there are furries at the school, but he's not taking their side?
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Is he confirming that there are indeed kids coming to school dressed like animals?
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This fact check and the dozens of others published by various outlets over the last couple of days
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who have claimed this is all some right-wing conspiracy totally invented,
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they've made it seem like the reports of furries were pure, unfounded rumor.
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But that's not quite what you get from the spokesman's own words.
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On Tuesday, the school sent another message to parents trying to clarify its original note.
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We have had several parents reach out to us over the past few days regarding rumors
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that are being spread about behaviors of a small group of students at our school.
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We hope our efforts to clarify misconceptions should be sufficient,
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but it seems we still have some misunderstandings.
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and concluded with an acknowledgement of rumored plans of a walkout protest on Wednesday.
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Well, there's again a reference to this group of students who, according to the fact checkers, doesn't exist.
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So how can a non-existent group of furries exhibit any behaviors at all, given that they don't exist?
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And if they don't exist, then why do we see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears
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kids from that school on camera saying explicitly that their classmates are being permitted
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to come to class dressed like animals and act like animals too?
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Here's a video from a guy named Eric Mautzis with more insight from people who work at the school.
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Problem is a substitute teacher from Mount Nebo Middle School contact me and said,
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And this one is actually really sad and this person needs to be reprimanded.
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Rebecca Hunsaker Barney said, this is the school I work at.
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I'm embarrassed for the parents that just believed everything their kids told them,
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then staged a protest without even contacting the school to find out what is really happening.
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The truth is, is that a few kids dressed as pets stay to themselves.
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They do not do any of these things these kids are reporting.
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However, they are constantly picked on and bullied.
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But what about the video I just got from a concerned parent where this girl acting like
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Honestly, we had the most wonderful, peaceful day yesterday because most of the troublemakers
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The halls were quiet and actually cleaner without them there.
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So this teacher is supposed to look at these kids in the eye, unbiased, and give them grades.
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You know, the furries being in school is not a rumor.
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And the left has been denying that this sort of thing is happening for years.
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They've claimed that this is all the claims of furries at school and kids coming to school
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They've been saying for years that this is a total right-wing myth, completely made up.
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But here you have a teacher who is on the side of the furries, a teacher who doesn't
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like the kids who were protesting, admitting publicly that, quote, a few kids dress as pets.
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And she says that like it's completely normal, like she sees no problem with it, as if it's
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I don't know about you, but when I went to school, we had precisely zero kids dressing
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Well, she acts like she doesn't have a problem with it, and she doesn't, and that is the
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Now, look, we can have debates over dress codes and how strict they could be or should be,
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but any halfway sane person should agree that the dress code should at least require that
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Dressing as a pet is not something that a child of any age should be doing on a regular
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Okay, if my four-year-old at home was dressing like an animal every day, I'd be a little
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It's like, well, that's an unhealthy fixation for a child of any age.
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But a middle school-aged child during school hours?
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By the way, the same guy, Eric Mautzes, has also obtained these photos of kids at this school
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dressed in their animal costumes, which you can see here.
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So we've got some kind of velociraptor-lion hybrid thing, and then a bunch of variations
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I think I see another lizard or maybe there's a dinosaur back there.
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Coming to school in a full-on mask and just walking around the school.
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Their parents are letting them leave the house in animal masks?
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But we have not yet gotten to the weirdest part of this story, somehow.
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The local ABC affiliate decided to provide context by interviewing a furry in costume and
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referring to the woman as her fictional character's name during this interview.
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Though they've been a furry for over a decade, they have their own opinions.
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It's crazy that it's escalated to this point where these kids are being so distracting to
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their peers that their peers want to stage a walkout.
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To have, you know, the next generation kind of muddy our name and not represent it very
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But maybe let's keep it outside of school hours.
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Yeah, she doesn't want these kids to muddy the name of furries.
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They must not sully the reputation of the furries.
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They shouldn't do anything that gives the public the impression that people who walk around in
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animal costumes are, I don't know, weird, bizarre, deranged, mentally unbalanced.
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That's according to Strudel, who the reporter refers to as Strudel, while also respecting
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the non-binary pronouns of the fictional character that the woman in the costume is pretending to be.
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Now, you may like to think that this, what you just saw there, is the media's low point.
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That's as low as, it cannot get worse than that.
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It cannot possibly get any more embarrassing than that.
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Searching for the media's lowest point is like searching for the end of a black hole.
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It just keeps going and going, and it gets darker and darker all the while.
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Now, this, as many of us have warned for years, what you're seeing in this particular school,
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and it's not the only school, by the way, is the result of emphasizing tolerance and acceptance
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In fact, you heard it even in that email the school sent home.
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The problem, as far as they're concerned, is not that kids are coming to school dressed
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as animals, but that other kids are not sufficiently tolerant of it.
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This is an inevitable stop along the way once you board the crazy train.
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And when you start telling people, kids especially, that they can be whatever they want to be and
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they can identify as whatever they want to identify as, of course some of them choose
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And since you've elevated tolerance and personal expression, quote unquote, as the highest virtues,
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you now have no way of telling these kids not to behave this way.
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They're being who they feel they are deep inside.
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The school can't put a stop to this without backtracking on the entire woke program.
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There's an interesting segment from that ABC Affiliates written report on this same issue.
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And the written, their article also quotes Strudel, by the way, and calls her that in the report.
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But then it says this, according to WebMD, a furry is someone who has an interest in animals
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with human qualities and who sometimes dresses up as a cartoon-like version of an animal.
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Quote, I really like the idea of animals that walk and talk, so I'm going to dress up as one
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as kind of a fun sort of cosplay thing, Strudel said.
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WebMD said people are often interested in becoming furries to find a sense of community,
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though some of the drawbacks they may face are negative stereotypes and social stigmas.
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Now, I have no idea why WebMD is being consulted for furry information,
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but in any event, it implies that the negative stereotypes and social stigmas
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against this quote-unquote community are wrong.
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I mean, there should be a social stigma attached to walking around in a ridiculous costume.
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It is normal for a person to treat such behavior as bizarre and antisocial,
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A lot of what we now refer to as bullying among children,
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but a lot of it is really just children acting normal
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and responding to weird, unhealthy things in a way that conveys
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The schools want to condition children out of that natural, normal response.
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They want your child to treat the furry as normal,
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eventually to actually see this sort of behavior as normal,
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And it's playing out at schools all across the country right now.
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after his plane was shot down during World War II.
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But local academics say that Biden's categorization