You know, the current Twitter discourse about zoos in the fandom is no accident, because the intersection between the surge of moral-panicky anti-zoo sentiments, and furry raiders/displaced furry kiwifarmers creating The First Furry Government movement is no coincidence.

I'd go so far as to say that anti-zoo sentiments are downstream of deeply harmful colonialist mindsets drawing from the disgust a lot of slave owners have towards their own getting into sexual relations with a black person, and how BIPOC were seen as less than humans like animals back then. This deeply racist sentiment exists even today.

Before you reply, I want to make it clear that this isn't about animal sexual abuse, it's about a kink/fetish that has been largely maligned. Animal sexual abusers are deeply disturbed people and they need to be stopped before they harm any more animals.