All that said, the standard of discussion I normally see on derpibooru is still leagues better than what I remember of the crap that went on on ponibooru, so don’t think that I hate you all or anything. It’s an improvement for which I’m grateful and I can honestly say I’ve had far less to do regarding policing racist commentary than I expected to when the ponibooru group first migrated here, and seen more people get called out for saying racist things than I thought I would either. So that’s an improvement - but we can still keep improving and I think that’s a worthy objective to strive towards.
 
I don’t hate you guys and I apologise if my tone comes off as hostile, but it’s difficult not to get angry when this is something you care about deeply. Really I just think a lot of the fandom is somewhat misguided and just needs to stop and think critically about this sort of stuff for a while.

Fine, then. They’re called out often by people who are promptly dismissed as anti-brony hate fanatics and their criticisms ignored. Everyone else is either saying the stupid shit or ignoring the people who say it, and while the former is worse than the latter we’d still be better off if more of the crowd stood up to say things like “stop asking “why is Twilight a nigger”, you arsehole”.
 
The definition of prejudice isn’t vague - certainly not when I’m using it. You just get upset because you don’t think of yourself as prejudiced and you don’t like to be called prejudiced - amusingly enough, you’re attacking my complaint instead of addressing the issue it put forward, focusing on my word choice instead of the actual argument (if it bothers you so much, in this instance you can pretty much read “racism” for “prejudice”). “Communicating a worldview different to mine” isn’t called prejudice by anyone with sense unless, surprise surprise, that worldview is prejudiced. You are perfectly entitled to your own opinion, but that does not mean it is a good or correct opinion - and if we were to argue about acceptable behaviour then I would say that within this fandom it often seems more acceptable to do and say racist things than it is to get angry about people being racist.
 
If you lot do not want us to be perceived that way by people on the outside and you genuinely do not approve of racism and all that jazz, then you and everyone else need to stop getting all defensive when people say we do racist shit and start telling the “few assholes” who you believe are the ones doing the racist shit to knock it the fuck off, publically, frequently and with fervour. “Don’t tar us all with the same brush” is all well and good but unless you make credible effort to discourage and distinguish from the unnacceptable behaviour it’s going to look like what is hopefully just a visible minority is in fact a considerable majority.
 
If I weren’t going to bed right now (and search actually worked) I’d do some stats and compare the scores of humanized images segregated by race, because I have a strong expectation that you’ll find black characterisations have significantly worse scores on average than other versions of characters, but I don’t want to actually say that is definitely the case without running the numbers. Maybe someone with some free time to spare would enjoy doing it (I use “enjoy” in a very loose sense).

Don’t get called out often enough? Seriously?
 
Have you seen the number of anti-brony hate blogs that try to portray those few assholes as the majority of the fandom?

The argument presented is completely self-contradicting, and therefore pointless. And Carcer, I don’t like how there are “prejudices” any more than you do, but the definition of what that means is so vague and dependent on who’s saying it (someone is communicating a worldview different than mine! Prejudice!), that it really serves no purpose anymore. Of course, I’m not really entitled to my own opinion, because it goes against acceptable behavior. See how this all works?

I don’t know about the guy who authors the bronyetiquette stuff or anything, but it is true that there’s an awful lot of prejudiced behaviours and attitudes on display in the fandom and they don’t get called out nearly often enough - and even when they are, it’s rare for anyone to actually listen. People have a tendency to get defensive when they get called out and rationalise their behaviour or attack the complainant instead of thinking about it critically, and when this happens publically they’re usually backed up by a lot of other people doing the same thing, so it’s not entirely unreasonable to say the fandom perpetuates prejudice when its response to accusations of prejudice is to ignore or attack the complaint, and only inflammatory by virtue of the fact that the fandom responds inappropriately when such issues are raised.

@Vree: Hahaha, no Vree, it’s just that after reading that the author of original Bronyetiquette macros lists even Equestria Daily among the sites of “pure evil”, it became quite clear to me that he’s either trolling, or being fanatically serious about this stuff.
 
Either way, it would be nice if we could somehow put an end to this. Sure, one can simply filter out the “bronyetiquette” tag, but still…

Kinda like what you’re doing now?

Pretty much the only reasonable response to all this bronyetiquette crap.
 
@BP pony is either the samefag who posts this or doesn’t have a clue. ‘Casue ONCE AGAIN he makes this sad attempt at sarcasm that is just hidden accusation. We don’t wanna make a raid on you, friend, your idiocy don’t matter! You’re not our first net moron and won’t be the last. And we’re not like that anyway.

Unless you’re a parent and those people are your underage children.

Here here EQUINE_excite
 
sips tea

Perpetuates homophobia, misogyny, and racism?  
I think you need to subscribe to another source of propaganda that isn’t so woefully hyperbolic. Next time you civilized nobles want to teach us wild savages how to be decent human beings, don’t bring some common sense we already know.

Sometimes I think people like doing stuff like this more than actually watching and discussing the show.

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But Mr.Background Pony #2, not all of it is even “Etiquette”, one is telling you not to look deeper into characters just because they aren’t the nicest people on earth, and then there’s even one where he just asks you to draw older ponies in G4 style.  
Besides, you should be able to learn this stuff just from how the people around you, you don’t need a blog to tell you all of this.

I’m with this nigga

Here’s the thing about etiquette, sugar cube: its just that. Etiquette.
 
Its not so much “telling you what to do” so much as its “how to be a decent human being.
 
and in a fandom that perpetuates homophobia, misogyny, racism, and all that other jazz? Personally, I’d say a little etiquette is in order.

It’s from a tumblr guys.

Once again that not brony etiquette. That applies to everything that can be considered a human being.

HEY, I HAVE AN IDEA
 
LET’S MAKE A RAID ON THAT GUY WHO MAKES THIS CRAP
 
HE’S PROBABLY A TROLL OR A BESOTTED CHRISTIAN ZEALOT, SO THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH US RAIDING HIM

You can’t tell me what to do!