Hah, yeah, we are pretty much the Gullivers of furries, and we see SJWs as Yahoos.
The thing is, it is a very complex fandom and SJWs tried to coopt it many times. When the show started, during the old 4chan era, many SJWs said the show was shit and reinforced gender stereotypes. Amanda Marcotte is in fact well known for displaying hatred toward the horsefuckers (Bronies in general, but the term horsefucker has an irreverent charm) and the show. First they tried to bring us down, then to control the show, now they want to hijack the fandom. For a while there have been SJWs infecting the show ever since Tumblr found interest in it (Around season 3), it all happened when the culture wars began to get worse, and right now the fandom is very divided, mostly regarding what should and should not be canon in the future. But even with SJW infection, we are pretty much a true reactionary group, and if we find something in the brand we don't like, people lose their minds.
Examples of this are many, but one of them was the Equestria Girls spinoff which had fans planning to kill Hasbro execs and panning the film for being an attempt at competing with Monster High long before the film was released.
Now most of the fandom is pleased with it because the writers nailed it, but now there are many other conflicts, especially because part of the staff displays SJW alignment which angers a large part of the fanbase and has them pitted against the SJWs in the fandom. Right now one of those heated debates took place, and we have an advantage, we have managed to corner SJWs into debate since the fandom was already full with infighting without them, so whenever there is a conflict against SJWs it is just horsefuckers fighting each other in stead of "harassment".
Imagine entering a lodge full of viking berserkers fully drunk and easily angered (Not to mention obsessed with equines) and calling them pigs, or misogynists, or any other SJW ad hominem, you will be forced to drink ale and arm wrestle with the strongest soldier there, and just like vikings we don't even differ between men and women in the battlefield if they prove to be able to fight.
Even in our terminology, for a while there has been a debate about how to call the female fans, some say bronies does not fit girls quite well and use the term pegasister, other use a dudeist approach (Everyone is a "dude") and state brony does not mean being male, but being a friend of the fandom. The debate often results in the majority preferring the dudeist approach.
As you see, the culture wars do not affect only gamers, but one of the advantages of children's brands is that just as Nintendo would eagerly kick an employee for working as escort and advocating for lolicon to be fully accepted, Hasbro would reject any SJW influence in the show because they are concerned of the parent's backlash, and they might be aware that SJWs rarely have children and that most parents are either extremely conservative or downright ConSJW, a term I have just came up with seconds ago to refer to the right wing conservative SJW which basically is just as authoritarian and has a twisted sense of justice as the average SJW but in the opposite direction.
A ConSJW would be just as prone to political correctness but for different reasons, a ConSJW will refuse to allow nudity even in adult media because it is "immoral" or "sinful", a ConSJW opposes homosexuality and believes it is filthy, impure, and therefore against their sense of justice, they will also stand against any form of violence in media, and often agree with average SJWs on many censorship issues.
And that is what Hasbro fears, making the soccermoms, the conservative fathers, and in general all ConSJWs angry again. Why? Because they already had to handle their shit during the "Derpygate incident" a moment in which SJWs and ConSJWs gathered in unison to censor a character who they thought was an insult against the mentally retarded, this resulted in the episode being heavily censored and the character sort of banned for a season. The bronies, who at the time had no SJWs of any kind among them, decided it was not fair to "kill" the cute blonde pegasus who became sort of a fandom icon and began the #SaveDerpy campaign to preventing her from being revoked from reality.
In the end we won, we got her back, but the execs kept her "officially" nameless for a long time, of course previous data had her named officially as Derpy, her name was removed from the episode and her voice was changed to make her sound less "retarded", something many considered absurd since when asked about the her voice, the VA who voiced her said she was based on a kid she knew from her past who was known for being a bit clumsy but not retarded, even Jar Jar was more blatantly retarded and still not censored. In fact the fandom never depicted Derpy as truly retarded but as mildly quirky or clumsy, and given her status as background character, the fandom defined most of her personality.
We, the horsefuckers, were still a bit butthurt over Derpy until the episode 100 when the writers and execs agreed the fire died down enough to decided to give her an important role again, mostly because the merchandise with her image became highly profitable (I own a deck box with her image), and she was given a voice similar to that of the edit of her previous speaking role and in the credits was named "Muffins" which is held as her "official" name to prevent any association with the original incident.
As you see the execs are extremely cautious to never alienate any of their possible customers so they prefer to continue using old cartoon formulas and ignoring SJWs who are never satisfied and will complain anyway. Another example is a later episode in which a male character crossdressed to help his younger sister. The tumblrites reacted as expected and began to claim "transphobia" and Peter New, the character's VA caved in to them and kind of became an SJW, but the fandom in general was not pleased with that, and Hasbro and the show writers decided to just ignore them and keep going on.
Maybe an advantage is that the show writers are truly diverse in ideology to the point that there are some writers who worked in politically incorrect shows such as South Park.
I remember one of the GG supporters in this thread once wrote a letter to bronies to join the culture wars against SJWs. I hope it did not fall in deaf ears, I still keep a copy which I sometimes share with anti SJW bronies. The problem is that some anti SJWs or supposed anti SJWs who are not interested in free speech frown us and furries and constantly accuse us of being just like SJWs, in particular otherkin, and claim bronies are all child molesters.
In the end this war will not be between right or left, but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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