Is the My Little Pony Fan Community Really Full of Nazis?

The Atlantic recently published an exposé on the urgent problem of Nazis in the subculture of "Bronies," adult fans of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cartoon. The "bronies," adult fans of the children's TV show "My Little Pony," have tacitly allowed white supremacists into their ranks for years. But following Black Lives Matter protests, they're finally waking up, @kait_tiffany reports: https://t.co/V0mvSbmxYx ? The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) June 23, 2020 This was interesting to me, because I have argued in the past that the influence and scale of the far-Right or alt-Right is wildly exaggerated in mainstream media, and, in a 2018 article for Quillette, I supported this claim by pointing out that the 2017 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which was the largest gathering of far-right activists in many years, attracted only 500 attendees while the 2018 Bronycon, an event for adult men who love My Little Pony, attracted 11 times as many people. But could it be true that the Bronies themselves are far-right activists? What do Bronies really care about? … Read Full Article »