On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 06:57:11 -0000 (UTC)
"Let's Pretend You're Dead!" <harris.sucks.too@gmail.com> wrote:

> Technobarbarian <technobarbarian-ztopzpam@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:t1vch2$fbu$1@gioia.aioe.org:
>
> >
> > False Reports Lead State Senator to Call for Investigation Into
> > 'Furries' BY THOMAS KIKA ON 3/28/22 AT 7:51 PM EDT
> >
> > "A state senator claimed false reports lead him to express concerns
> > over "furries" being catered to in schools.
> >
> > Nebraska State Senator Bruce Bostelman, a Republican, took to the
> > state Senate floor on Monday and addressed his concerns that some
> > schools were allegedly providing litter boxes for the use of
> > students that self-identify as cats or dogs, who he referred to as
> > "furries." Bostelman said that such a practice would be "very
> > disruptive to the school system."
> >
> > "I'm a little shocked," Bostelman said. "It's something called
> > furries. If you don't know what furries are it's where school
> > children dress up as animals—cats or dogs—during the school day.
> > They meow and they bark and they interact with their school, with
> > their teachers in this fashion. And now schools are wanting to put
> > litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this
> > sanitary?""
> >
> > "Bostelman continued with an alleged anecdote about a student who
> > defecated on the floor after their school refused to provide a
> > litter box for them to use.
> >
> > "What is going on?" he added. "Some kids can't wear an American flag
> > and walk through the school in their shirt. And you keep them out of
> > school?"
> >
> > Later on Monday, Omaha-based journalist Jon Kipper reported that
> > Bostelman and another Nebraska state senator, Lynne Walz, reached
> > out to the school districts named in the rumors and were "assured
> > none of that happened." School districts across the country
> > subjected to similar rumors have also denied them outright."
> > [snip]
> >
> > You would think that the correct time to do a little fact
> > checking
> > would be _before_ you've made a public ass of yourself and not
> > after. I've met a few furries. I don't think any of them use a
> > litter box or defecate in public.
>
> The operative words were "I don't think." Isn't that so?
>
> Schools are not the correct forums for the absence of personal
> restraint. Keep your quirks where they belong.
>

I've seen worse from certain conventions. Thankfully, most of those
incidents were just self-hating furries trolling, but not all were
fabricated.