As for an example of bad actors trying to claim queer or POC people had nothing to do with the development of this fandom:

That guy is a genuine white supremacist and trump supporter, I wouldn’t think of his takes as sane.

This is what I mean when I say colonization is a mindset. It's not enough to steal a thing, they have to make shit up in order to pretend they have an absolute claim to it.

Wow, just wow... To either be a bad actor or to outright deny the history of the fandom is just crazy. Some Burned Furs stuff right there for sure

'first fursuiter was played by a man' wasn't that a whole ass trans woman? what's going on there?

dunno about the first con, but the first firsuiter and the first fursona were almost certainly black (ancient Egyptian), at least insofar as the Ancient Egyptians actually documented stuff, there's likely others before them, albeit not documented. Furry is very VERY old.

Is that that "an"cap Proud Boy numb-nuts from two years ago?

Omg I'm still agitated the the person that seems to think anthros are specific to Europeans when they're just a human thing. Like sure the oldest visual depiction archaeologist ever found was in Europe but most likely people were made anthro art before that that just didn't survive to the modern day

“fURRy fAnDoM hAs bEEn TaKeN oVeR by teh GAYS and BlAcKs?” Okay. So? Like, legitimately, why should I see that as a bad thing, lmao

The idea of furry being started by straight people 😭 …okay! Also LMAO anthro animals are a pretty fucking universal thing among like thousands of cultures???

The fuck!