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My Little Pony's Argument for a Racist Colonialist Monarchy
In this controversial episode, we dive deep into the surprising and unsettling connections between the beloved children's show 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' and right-wing extremist ideologies. We discuss themes of racial segregation, colonialism, monarchy, and anti-communism portrayed in the show. By analyzing specific episodes and character dynamics, we reveal how My Little Pony potentially indoctrinates viewers with far-right beliefs. Buckle up for this eye-opening and provocative exploration that challenges everything you thought you knew about this seemingly innocent show.
Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. I'm excited to be with you today. A lot of people find it pretty humorous that the, my Little Pony fandom was one of the predecessors to the modern online right culture.
And a lot of people look at this show superficially and even in the early days it had a lot of right wing fans, right? And they're like, but how? I wanna turn this around on you. How can anyone watch the My Little Pony Show and not feeling that it's a show that explicitly adv advocates for racism, racial segregation, or at least what leftists would call racism, not what Rightists would call racism.
Monarch colonialism Jack. And, and anti-communism. That communism is evil. As, as well as anti technological progress. Progress. So we're gonna go into all of these. The, [00:01:00] the My Little Pony Show and its political themeing. Is far to the right of a thinker like Munches Moog. I I, I might even argue that my Little Pony is far to the right of Nick Fuentes.
Um, Wow. And so we're gonna go like, like it's, it's so far right? It makes me uncomfortable. But it built an entire generation of right wing extremists by incepting them through a kid's show. Like, no, Simone, like you might think I'm exaggerating. We're gonna go over one episode here where the villain, and this is like a core, big, bad villain of the show, and this is a two part arc, so it's like a big show.
Simone Collins: Okay.
Malcolm Collins: Everybody has like their inborn proficiencies, which are represented by their cutie marks, the things they are naturally good at.
Simone Collins: Yeah. This is the little, the little like logo that ends up on Yeah. That, that says I am uniquely good at x sort of a [00:02:00] task. Yeah. And she, it's kind of like, I don't know, with Hogwarts, like you, you don't find out what house you're in or what your special skill is until you are, you're older, so,
Malcolm Collins: right.
But it is, it is clearly like genetic in this world, for example. It's mentioned that in one part they're talking about like what apple jacks. Sister, little sister is gonna have, and they go, well, it's probably gonna be something to do with apples. 'cause in our family it's always something to do with apples.
And she removes them all and replaces them with an equal sign. Literally like, you know, the one the progressives use in like pro-gay pro protests and stuff like that. And then they all march around the town in what is clearly supposed to be communist style marches.
Speaker: In, in Our Town work as a team. You can have a nightmare if you never dream.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm just having a hard time understanding. Different talents lead to different opinions, which lead to bitterness and [00:03:00] misery.
Malcolm Collins: And so we'll get into that in a second.
But. I wanna start less than that. So let's look at how does it handle colonialism, right? Surely this, like, I'm gonna read you this episode. You're gonna be like, how did somebody write this? And then how is this conceivably approved? Okay. So the conflict arises between settler ponies of Appalachia a joke on the applejacks who are a country seamed pony being an Appalachian.
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