{"id":2225428,"date":"2024-04-19T16:22:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/students-protest-as-their-school-becomes-infested-by-furries\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T20:28:00","slug":"students-protest-as-their-school-becomes-infested-by-furries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/students-protest-as-their-school-becomes-infested-by-furries\/","title":{"rendered":"Students rally against furry invasion at their school"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudents-protest-as-their-school-becomes-infested-by-furries%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2225428&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The story revolves around \u200dstudents protesting furries at\u200b Mt. Nebo Middle \u2063School \u200din\u2062 Utah, triggered by an influx of fur-clad classmates. Conflicting reports emerged about the existence of furries, with\u200c a spokesperson denying their presence. The situation escalated \u2062with an\u200d altercation involving students dressed uniquely, prompting debates on appropriate\u2062 school attire \u200dand \u2062tolerance. The students at Mt. Nebo \u200dMiddle School\u200c in Utah \u2064protested against the presence of \u200bfurries following a surge of students\u200d dressing in furry costumes. Confusion arose as \u2063reports conflicted\u2064 about the existence of furries, with \u200dan official denying their presence.\u2063 Tensions heightened after an altercation involving uniquely \u200bdressed students, sparking discussions on school attire and \u2063tolerance.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let\u2019s try to follow the winding contours of this bizarre story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It begins earlier this week with students at Mt. Nebo Middle School in Utah staging a walk out in protest of all the furries that administrators have allowed to infest the school. It began with a petition, which gained over 500 signatures in a few days, calling for the school to start enforcing its dress codes and stop allowing students to come to class dressed in their furry costumes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then came the walk out. Adam Bartholomew, a local commentator in Utah, captured footage of the event. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the furries have gone feral, it seems. They are biting and scratching and pouncing on people. Some of the students have had enough of this behavior. They want to go to school at a school, not a petting zoo. And that\u2019s why they walked out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then the fact checkers leapt into action to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/simplest-explanation-cnns-chief-medical-correspondent-differs-with-colleagues-says-virus-origin-could-be-wuhan-lab\/\" title=\"\u2018Simplest Explanation\u2019: CNN\u2019s Chief Medical Correspondent Differs With Colleagues, Says Virus Origin Could Be Wuhan Lab\">throw cold water<\/a> on this whole story. Or to try, at least. Here\u2019s the Salt Lake Tribune: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fact check: Nebo School District responds to claims about student protest over \u2018furries.\u2019 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-school-hosts-commercial-shoot-while-doors-remain-shut-to-students\/\" title=\"Los Angeles School Hosts Commercial Shoot While Doors Remain Shut To Students\">district spokesperson<\/a> said the protest seemed to be organized after a message sent to families was misinterpreted.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What kind of misinterpretation can lead these students to think that there are a bunch of furries in the school when there really aren\u2019t? What could you have said in an email that people would mistranslate as a reference to furries? Let\u2019s keep reading:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Video of middle schoolers walking out of a Nebo School District school in Payson on Wednesday quickly spread in conservative social media circles, with posts claiming the students were protesting because the district was allowing student \u201cfurries\u201d to \u201cterrorize\u201d other students\u2026 Nebo School District spokesperson Seth Sorenson said that claim was false. He also said students at the middle school are not wearing full-body animal costumes to class, as \u201cfurries\u201d \u2014 part of a subculture of people who sometimes dress up like animal characters but act like humans \u2014 are known to do\u2026 Dismissing the claims, Sorenson said the Wednesday protest seemed to be organized after a message the school sent to families last week was misinterpreted. The message was sent after a group of students had been targeting another group of students, saying things \u201cthat were overheard by others that the administration felt were inappropriate and shouldn\u2019t be said,\u201d Sorenson said. The group of students being targeted, he added, were students who sometimes come to school wearing headbands \u201cthat may have ears on them.\u201d He said doesn\u2019t think the targeted students necessarily refer to themselves as \u201cfurries.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the spokesman says there are no furries. The kids are lying, or somehow confused. There aren\u2019t any furries, but there might be some kids wearing animal ears to class. Those kids, he says, may or may not identify as furries. It\u2019s all a big misunderstanding. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1351-the-matt-walsh-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then he goes on to admit that there have been altercations over people \u201cdressing differently:\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In one specific instance, the targeted students \u201cwere sitting in a corner of the lunchroom, eating as a group of friends\u201d when others began calling them names and throwing food at them \u201cbecause they were dressed differently,\u201d Sorenson told The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, providing more details about the situation. After word of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-enraged-falcons-hc-arthur-smith-cusses-out-saints-coach-after-31-point-slaughter\/\" title=\"Video: Furious Falcons HC Arthur Smith Swears at Saints Coach Following Dominant 31-Point Victory\">altercation spread<\/a>, the school sent an initial message to families last Friday, stating, \u201cWe expect ALL students to be respectful towards each other while we are here at school.\u201d \u201cWe hope you will treat others how you would like to be treated,\u201d the message stated. \u201cOutstanding behavior might demonstrate curiosity, understanding, patience and tolerance.\u201d\u2026 But Sorenson said he thinks some parents misinterpreted the note, incorrectly taking it as a message that the school was \u201ctaking the side of a single group, saying, \u2018We want you to be kind to this group, but they don\u2019t have to be kind to anyone else.\u2019\u201d \u201cNobody was taking the side of one group or another,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat we were saying is everyone needs to treat everyone else with respect.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wait a second \u2014 he says the school isn\u2019t taking the side of \u201ca single group.\u201d What group? I thought he said there weren\u2019t any furries. Which group is he referring to? I thought the group in question doesn\u2019t exist at the school? What is the fact check here? Is he saying that there are furries at school but he\u2019s not taking their side? Is he confirming that there are indeed kids coming to class dressed like animals? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This \u201cfact check,\u201d and the dozens of others published by various outlets over the last couple of days, have made it seem like the reports of furries were pure unfounded rumor. But that\u2019s not quite what I\u2019m getting from the spokesman\u2019s own words. And then there\u2019s this: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Tuesday, the school sent another message to parents, trying to clarify its original note. \u201cWe have had several parents reach out to us over the past few days, regarding rumors that are being spread about behaviors of a small group of students at our school,\u201d the message read. \u201cWe hoped our efforts to clarify misconceptions would be sufficient, but it seems we still have some misunderstandings.\u201dThe note went on to quote the Friday message, and concluded with an acknowledgement of rumored plans of a walkout protest Wednesday.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s again a reference to this group of students who, according to the fact checkers, don\u2019t exist. How can a non-existent group of furries exhibit any behaviors at all, given that they don\u2019t exist? Or do they? And if they don\u2019t exist then why did we see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears kids from that school, on camera, saying explicitly that their classmates are being permitted to come to class dressed like animals, and act like animals too? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s a video from a guy named Eric Moutsos with more insight from people who work at the school:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay, well that confirms it. The furries in school is not a rumor, it\u2019s not misinformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Left has been denying that this sort of thing is happening for years. But here you have a teacher who is on the side of the furries \u2014 a teacher who doesn\u2019t like the kids who were protesting \u2014 admitting, publicly, that \u201ca few kids dress as pets.\u201d She says that like it\u2019s completely normal, like she sees no problem with it. She doesn\u2019t, and that IS the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We can have debates over dress codes and how strict they should be. But any halfway sane person should agree that the dress code should at least require every student to dress like a human being, at a minimum. Dressing as a pet is not something that a child of any age should be doing on a regular basis. Especially not a middle school aged child \u2014 during school hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the way, the same guy, Eric Moutsos, has also obtained these photos of kids at this school dressed in their animal costumes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So we\u2019ve got some kind of velociraptor-lion hybrid, and then a bunch of variations of cats. Kids are dressing like this for school. Their parents are letting them leave the house in animal masks. For school. This is happening. It hasn\u2019t been debunked. It is real.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But we haven\u2019t gotten to the weirdest part of this story, somehow. The local ABC affiliate decided to provide more context by interviewing a furry in costume, and referring to the woman as her fictional character\u2019s name. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, she doesn\u2019t want these kids to \u201cmuddy the name\u201d of the furries. They must not sully the reputation of the furries. They shouldn\u2019t do anything that gives the public the impression that people who walk around in animal costumes are \u2014I don\u2019t know \u2014 weird, bizarre, deranged, mentally unbalanced. That\u2019s according to \u201cStrudel,\u201d who the reporter refers to as Strudel, while also respecting the non-binary pronouns of the fictional character that the woman in the costume is pretending to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You may like to think that this is the media\u2019s low point. That it has finally hit rock bottom. That it cannot possibly get any more embarrassing than this. But there is no bottom, I\u2019m afraid. Searching for the media\u2019s lowest point is like searching for the end of a black hole. It just keeps going and going, and it gets darker and darker all the while.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This \u2014 as many of us have warned for years \u2014 is the result of emphasizing tolerance and acceptance above all. I don\u2019t say it\u2019s the end result. It is not the final result. As I said, there is no end. There is no finality. It can always get weirder and more disturbing. But this is a result. This is an inevitable stop along the way once you board the crazy train.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you start telling people \u2014 especially kids \u2014 that they can be whatever they want to be, and identify as whatever they want to identify as, of course some of them choose to be animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And since you\u2019ve elevated tolerance and \u201cpersonal expression\u201d as the highest virtues, you now have no way of telling these kids not to behave this way. How can you? They\u2019re expressing themselves; they\u2019re being who they feel they are, deep inside. The school <em>can\u2019t<\/em> put a stop to this without backtracking on the entire woke program. That\u2019s clearly how they see it and they\u2019re right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s an interesting segment from that ABC affiliate\u2019s written report on this issue. It also quotes Strudel, and calls her that in the report, but then it says this:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to WebMD, a furry is someone who has an interest in animals with human qualities, and who sometimes dresses up as a cartoon-like version of an animal. \u201cI really like the idea of animals that walk and talk, so I\u2019m going to dress up as one, as kind of a fun sort of cosplay thing,\u201d Strudel said\u2026 WebMD said people are often interested in becoming furries to find a sense of community, though some of the drawbacks they may face are negative stereotypes and social stigmas.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, I have no idea why WebMD is being consulted for furry information, but in any event, it implies that the \u201cnegative stereotypes\u201d and \u201csocial stigmas\u201d against this \u201ccommunity\u201d are wrong. But they aren\u2019t. There <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">should be<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-state-university-hosts-sex-week-sponsored-by-planned-parenthood\/\" title=\"Ohio State University Hosts \u2018Sex Week\u2019 Sponsored By Planned Parenthood\">social stigma attached<\/a> to walking around in a ridiculous costume. It is normal for a person to treat such behavior as bizarre and antisocial, because it is bizarre and antisocial behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of what we now refer to as \u201cbullying\u201d among children is really just children acting normal and responding to weird, unhealthy things in a way that conveys that the things are weird and unhealthy. The schools want to condition children out of that natural, normal response. They want your child to treat the furry as normal, and then eventually see the furry as normal, and then eventually become one himself, or something just as, or more, bizarre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s the process and the agenda. And it\u2019s playing out at schools all across the country right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This strange tale unfolds at Mt. Nebo Middle School in Utah. Students recently protested a surge of furries on campus. 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