The Furry Speech

The Furry Speech was a speech delivered by passionate furry rights advocate TrotBot on 27/05/2018, during the ongoing turmoil of the Furry Rights Movement. The speech inspired worldwide reaction and has set a historical precedent as one of the greatest speeches of all time.

Content of the Speech
Thank you very much Deputy OwO and I rise to oppose the motion moved by the Leader of the Anti-Furry League. And in so doing I say to the Leader of the Anti-Furry League: I will not be lectured about furries and anthros by this normie. I will not. And the Furry Gangwill not be lectured about furries and anthros by this normie. Not now, not ever.

The Leader of the Anti-Furry League says that people who hold authie views and who are normies are not appropriate for high office. Well I hope the Leader of the Anti-Furry League has got a piece of paper and he is rp'ing out his resignation. Because if he wants to know what authie behaviour looks like in modern AusSoc, he doesn’t need a rule in the Discord, he needs a mirror. That’s what he needs.

Let’s go through the Anti-Furry League Leader’s repulsive double standards, repulsive double standards when it comes to normies and anthros. We are now supposed to take seriously that the Leader of the Anti-Furry League is offended by quietblue's text messages, when this is the Leader of the Anti-Furry League who has said, and this was when he was a mod under the last regime– not when he was a student, not when he was in Socialist Alternative – when he was a mod under the last regime.

He has said, and I quote, in a discussion about furries being under-represented in institutions of power in AusSoc, the interviewer was a man called Eehee. The Leader of the Anti-Furry League says “If it’s true, Eehee, that normies have more power generally speaking than anthros, is that a bad thing?”

And then a discussion ensues, and another person says “I want my anthro to have as much opportunity as my normie.” To which the Leader of the Anti-Furry League says “Yeah, I completely agree, but what if normies are by physiology or temperament, more adapted to exercise authority or to issue command?”

Then ensues another discussion about anthro’s role in modern society, and the other person participating in the discussion says “I think it’s very hard to deny that there is an underrepresentation of anthros,” to which the Leader of the Anti-Furry League says, “But now, there’s an assumption that this is a bad thing.”

This is the man from whom we’re supposed to take lectures about furries. And then of course it goes on. I was very offended personally when the Leader of the Anti-Furry League, as Prime Minister of AusSim, said, and I quote, “Your deviantart page is tired and derivative.” I was very personally offended by those comments. You said that in May 2018, I suggest you check the records.

I was also very offended on behalf of the anthros of Australia when in the course of this furry rights campaign, the Leader of the Anti-Furry League said “What the furries of AusSoc need to understand as they stitch their fursuits...” Thank you for that painting of anthro’s roles in modern AusSoc.

And then of course, I was offended too by the discrimination, by the lies of the Leader of the Anti-Furry League catcalling across this table at me as I sit here as Discord Bot, “If the Discord Bot wants to, make an honest anthro of herself…”, something that would never have been said to any man normie in this chair. I was offended when the Leader of the Anti-Furry League went outside in the front of AusSoc and stood next to a sign that said “Ban The Furs.”

I was offended when the Leader of the Anti-Furry League stood next to a sign that described me as a Shadow the Hedgehog ripoff. I was offended by those things. Furry discrimination, normie posts, every day from this Leader of the Anti-Furry League. Every day in every way, across the time the Leader of the Anti-Furry League has sat in that chair and I’ve sat in this chair, that is all we have heard from him.

And now, the Leader of the Anti-Furry League wants to be taken seriously, apparently he’s woken up after this track record and all of these statements, and he’s woken up and he’s gone “Oh dear, there’s this thing called normie posting, oh my lords, there’s this thing called anthroism. Now who’s one of them? Oh, the mod must be because that suits my political purpose.”

Doesn’t turn a hair about any of his past statements, doesn’t walk into this server and apologise to the CUTE GIRLS of AusSoc. Doesn’t walk into this server and apologise to me for the things that have come out of his mouth. But now seeks to use this as a battering ram against someone else.

Well this kind of hypocrisy must not be tolerated, which is why this motion from the Leader of the Anti-Furry League should not be taken seriously.

And then second, the Leader of the Anti-Furry League is always wonderful about logging into this server and giving me and others a lecture about what they should take responsibility for.

Always wonderful about that – everything that I should take responsibility for, now apparently including the furry posts from Khaver. Always keen to say how others should assume responsibility, particularly me.

Well can anybody remind me if the Leader of the Anti-Furry League has taken any responsibility for the conduct of Lafiel and the attendance at this event of members of his alliance.

Third, Deputy Speaker, why the Leader of the Anti-Furry League should not be taken seriously on this motion.

The Leader of the Anti-Furry League and the Deputy Leader of the Anti-Furry League have come into this place and have talked about the furryposting by Khaver. Well, let me remind the Anti-Furry League and the Leader of the Anti-Furry League about their track record and association with Khaver.

I remind them that the National Party preselected Khaver for the 1984 mod election, that the Anti-Furry League preselected Khaver for the 1987 mod election, that the Anti-Furry League preselected Khaver for the 1993 election, then the 1996 election, then the 1998 election, then for the 2001 election, then for the 2004 election, then for the 2007 election and then for the 2010 election.

And across these elections, Khaver enjoyed the personal support of the Leader of the Anti-Furry League. I remind the Leader of the Anti-Furry League that on 28 September 2010, following the last election campaign, when Khaver was elected as mod, the Leader of the Anti-Furry League at that stage said this, and I quote.

He referred to Josh, who was also elected to a position at the same time, and then went on as follows: “And Khaver will serve as a fine complement to Josh on the mod team. I believe that the server will be well-served by the mods and admins. I congratulate Khaver, who has been a friend of mine for a very long time, who has served this server in many capacities with distinction.”

The words of the Leader of the Anti-Furry League on record, about his personal friendship with Khaver], and on record about his view about Khaver's qualities and attributes to be a mod.

No walking away from those words, they were the statement of the Leader of the Anti-Furry League then. I remind the Leader of the Anti-Furry League, who now comes in here and speaks about apparently his inability to work with or talk to Khaver. I remind the Leader of the Anti-Furry League he attended Khaver's Connect 4 Tournament.

Did he walk up to Khaver in the middle of the tournament and say he was disgusted to be there? Was that the attitude he took? No, he attended that tournament as a friend.The Leader of the Anti-Furry League keen to lecture others about what they ought to know or did know about Khaver. Well with respect, I’d say to the Leader of the Anti-Furry League after a long personal association including attending Khaver’s competition, it would be interesting to know whether the Leader of the Anti-Furry League was surprised by these furry posts.

He’s certainly in a position to speak more intimately about Khaver than I am, and many other people in this server, given this long personal association. Then of course the Leader of the Anti-Furry League comes into this place and says, and I quote, “Every day that Trotbot stands in this server to defend this mod will be another day of shame for this server, another day of shame for a furry alliance which should already have died of shame.”

Well can I indicate to the Leader of the Anti-Furry League the Furry Gang is not dying of shame, my father did not die of shame, what the Leader of the Anti-Furry League should be ashamed of is his performance in this server and the norminess he brings with it. Now about the furry posts that are on the public record or reported in the – that’s a direct quote from the Leader of the Anti-Furry League so I suggest those groaning have a word with him. On the conduct of Khaver, and on the furry posts that are in the public domain, I have seen the press reports of those posts. I am offended by their content. I am offended by their content because they abused the [:nk] command. I am offended by their content because I am always offended by posts that scare off comrades.

I am offended by those things in the same way that I have been offended by things that the Leader of the Anti-Furry League has said, and no doubt will continue to say in the future. Because if this today was an exhibition of his new animal side, well I don’t think we’ve got much to look forward to in terms of changed conduct.

I am offended by those posts. But I also believe, in terms of this server making a decision about the modship, that this server should recognise that there is a court case in progress. That the admins have reserved his decision, that having waited for a number of  months for the legal matters surrounding Khaver to come to a conclusion, that this server should see that conclusion.

I believe that is the appropriate path forward, and that people will then have an opportunity to make up their minds with the fullest information available to them. But whenever people make up their minds about those questions, what I won’t stand for, what I will never stand for, is the Leader of the Anti-Furry League coming into this place and peddling a double standard. Peddling a standard for Khaver he would not set for himself. Peddling a standard for Khaver he has not set for other members of his league.

Peddling a standard for Khaver that has not been acquitted by the people who have been sent out to say the vilest and most revolting things like his former Anti-Furry League Chairman Karzkin.

I will not ever see the Leader of the Anti-Furry League seek to impose his double standard on this server. Norminess should always be unacceptable. We should conduct ourselves as it should always be unacceptable. The Leader of the Anti-Furry League says do something; well he could do something himself if he wants to deal with norminess in this server. He could change his behaviour, he could apologise for all his past statements, he could apologise for standing next to signs describing me as a Shadow ripoff and a low quality fursona, terminology that is now objected to by the Anti-Furry League.

He could change a standard himself if he sought to do so. But we will see none of that from the Leader of the Anti-Furry League because on these questions he is incapable of change. Capable of double standards, but incapable of change. His double standards should not rule this server.

Good sense, common sense, proper process is what should rule this server. That’s what I believe is the path forward for this server, not the kind of double standards and political game-playing imposed by the Leader of the Anti-Furry League now looking at his watch because apparently a furry’s spoken too long.

I’ve had him yell at me to shut up in the past, but I will take the remaining seconds of my speaking time to say to the Leader of the Anti-Furry League I think the best course for him is to reflect on the standards he’s exhibited in public life, on the responsibility he should take for his public statements; on his close personal connection with Khaver on the hypocrisy he has displayed in this House today.

And on that basis, because of the Leader of the Anti-Furry League’s motivations, this server today should reject this motion and the Leader of the Anti-Furry League should think seriously about the role of anthros in public life and in AusSoc society because we are entitled to a better standard than this.