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Garden State Fur the Weekend is currently hosting Furry Raiders who are welcome back with no explanation after previous bans, and teaming up to flood their chat with inane posts as if they're just regular furries dogpatch.press/2024/10/21/g...

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Their response reads like "We're not pissing in the New Jersey Furs' pool, that's misinformation. We're merely urinating in it. Also those symbols on the pool furniture means good luck, not hateful at all. Any questioning of our shoddy logic gets you kicked out of the con chat!"

Like, as long as it isn't on their property or in their chats, its not their problem? I see a large con with many openly-out fash furs that is seemingly apathetic to what happens to said people the moment it's out of view. I'm just pointing that out.

Garden State Fur the Weekend is currently hosting the Furry Raider pictured above, and Peter/Arcticwindsphoto/Flynn, who was featured by Fox News at the con. GSFTW allowed Fox News to come use the con as their platform to have Peter tell the world: "Go Trump".

Today Peter, other Furry Raiders, and previously banned members are a focus of complaints in the GSFTW chat. Peter tells protesters: "you are guests in our house."

GSFTW admins chime in with the Furry Raiders claiming the con to be their house. GSFTW admins tell other users to take "personal beefs" elsewhere. When nazifurs use the con as their platform, the con expects you to be sweet and silent. GSFTW is complicit.

It's always funny when the "no politics" crowd don't consider being a fucking nazi to be political You wanna get politics out of your con? Boot the fucking nazis

“But the Nazis are being so nice! It’s the leftys that are causing a problem!” Yeah cause Nazis are like a fucking virus. The quietly invade and overtake the system until there are so many of them you don’t know what to fucking do and then they overwhelm everyone else. They’re EVIL.

Read through the whole thread, thought "Hey I feel like I know some of these people?" Turns out yeah all of the upstate NY furry groups are run by neonazis. Real cool, not upset at all 🥲👍

Yesterday I heard about this and, bringing it up to the admins, they definitely downplayed this. Having relatively high first impression from its con several months ago, I am disappointed that further research, and then looking at the chat receipts. Very disappointed.

The chat is completely private now, and I left shortly after. I'm sure their plan will be to lay low and quiet in attempt to let it wash over, forgotten in a few months. Nazis and grifters are always going to try and put themselves in power over the fandom; keep effort and awareness, knock them off.

I'm so exhausted from this entire ordeal. Shy has seemingly doubled down on his alliance with the fash furs, despite everyone telling him to stop. I can only assume he's supportive. The worst part is seeing the local community put blinders on to it all, instead of holding folks accountable. Sigh =/

My best guess is that they're pulling strings on them. I think they promised him a change in a pert of his community that he aligns and took out the other shit they do. I've seen similar things with gay/trans conservatives

Right? I knew the guy since 99 / 2000, and while he's always been a pushover / WAY too easy going, he would at least listen to reason. No idea wtf happened in the last ~15 or so years, but I NEVER had "gay black man eschews all old friends to be buddies with right wingers / nazis" on my bingo card

Had a similar situation in a group chat a month ago. It's either they think they'll be safe if they play along, or they are truly that idiotic to think they are part of it. It just blows my mind either way.

Us new jerseyans do not stand for this deplorable behavior. We need sane, tolerant people to make more events so that hateful bad actors can't gain ground in the first place. It's on us to keep this from happening again.

Also if they don’t think the right is coming for gay people next they have a massive blind spot. There are very few cis straight furries. And even then the right wouldn’t like them?? They’re too “other”. The whole cozying up to the right will get them no where but eaten.

a person (who was security i believe. they were definitely part of the staff.) made a strange, kinda sexual comment towards me. someone was looking for my telegram and asked “where’s your thing?” to which that person responded “right there” and pointed to my crotch ?? 😭 really weirded me out.

The second, also they're generally too stupid to understand consequences at all, they think it's a lark. The more sociopathically clever ones do understand but think they'll get to wear the boot and kick others in the pit first when its their turn. They view all other people as Hobbesian rivals.

Oh well, I guess GSFTW can become the new Free Fur All and everyone else will just stay away. Hope Shy enjoys his event with the literal tens of people who are comfortable being around the Raiders. 🙄

I feel bad for the two GoH who signed up in good faith. Even if GSFTW tries to do some kind of u-turn, it's too late to rebuild trust. They're the de facto fashcon now and attendance will plummet accordingly.

Note: Garden State Fur the Weekend, Inc's refund policy is 60 days *from the date that the customer pre-registered*. After 60 days they will not issue a refund, even if it's still months out from the event itself.

It seems very strange to me to have a refund policy with a deadline based around when the individual pre-registered, rather than how many days are left until the event begins. It essentially penalises people for pre-registering early!