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This is an episode I've had working for a while. It would be about racism and how everyone should get along.

The mane seven receive a mysterious invitation with directions to a new city called "Earthopolis". When they get there, they are met by a cranky guard who charge entry to everypony (except Pinkie Pie and Apple Jack) twenty bits. When Pinkie Pie tries to lower the price, the guard raises the price to thirty bits. Then, they are greeted by the city's mayor/sheriff/overlord, Dig Dirt. He invites the ponies in, saying that they can pay off the debt later. When they enter, Dig Dirt tells the ponies, "Rule number one: No flying and no magic." When Rainbow Dash complains about this rule, Dig Dirt puts restraints on her wings, disabling her flight. Rarity starts confronting Dig Dirt about this, who then puts a magic restraint on her horn. He then puts restraints on all the other ponies (except for the earth ponies). When they try to escape Earthopolis, only Pinkie Pie and Apple Jack escape. The rest are blocked by a forcefield. A while later, after seeing how poorly non-earth ponies are treated in this new town, they try to stop Dig Dirt, discovering that he was using a device to make a barrier around the city. When asked why he did all of this, he tells the others that when he was young, he was always made fun of because he couldn't fly or use magic. After he read about how earth ponies were ostracized in the olden days, he made the city and the device that made the forcefield. Realizing the error of his ways, he destroys the device and lets all of the ponies free.

Hope you enjoyed this episode idea!

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Not that I object to the idea, but Bridle Gossip does a superb job addressing issues of racism and xenophobia. That episode and Zecora would be a good starting point.

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No, absolutly not. Having that would open the flood gates to a lot of controversy.

Evening mentioning Donald Trump causes a virtual uproar, if we start including political issues into mlp, Its going to causes more problems then it solves. People will accuse hasbro of pandering to political sides, and for people who downright hate politics (guilty as charged) ita going to be hell. 

i do enjoy the idea of everyone getting along, but if the show starts including political messages (especially in this day and age, where everyone is super defensive about political viewpoints) its going to cause the exact opposite. 

edit: If you want to write a fantiction about it instead, id be more then glad to read it

 

 

 

 

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So another snowflake scumbag socialist with hurt feelings who dindu nuffin. By this craptastic logic Izuku Midoriya should be a supervillain of his story. He was an "earth pony", he was bullied for this reason, yet he became a hero. I want to see stories about such characters, not about pathetic whiny losers who teach that resolution of petty grievances can be forced through violence and deceit.

 

P.S: If this was an attempt to make a Trump-like villain it failed hard. A guy like him doesn't care about race or bad childhood memories. He cares about profit and his own image. He'd love to have unrestrained unicorns and pegasi cause they would be able to do stuff for him. We already have ponies who channel him way better.

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No offense, but it's sounds way too similar to season 5 premiere. Plus, it's full of plot holes. For example, why would Dig Dirt even bother making the forcefield in the first place? Unicorns and pegasi can obviously still enter the town, and it'd make little sense for someone who hates a certain group of people to keep people of said group around against their will. 

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In addition to what others have said, Earth Ponies have never been specifically ostracized any more than any other ponies. Sure the other two races had offensive stereotypes about them, but the Earth ponies returned the favor with their own bile. The only ones who single out Earth Ponies are certain subsets of the fandom.

And all ponies have magic. This is canon. It just manifests differently depending on the race. There is what I label as “active magic” and “passive magic”. In general, the races’ magic seems to work like this:

Unicorns: All active magic, no passive. All magic manifestations must be consciously summoned through their horns.

Pegasi: Some active magic, some passive magic. Pegasi weather control is an active ability that must be consciously attempted. Walking on clouds is a passive ability that just just comes naturally. Flying is a bit of both, in that it it is fueled by unconscious magic, but the act itself still has to be learned, just as humans have to learn how to walk.

Earth Ponies: No active magic, all passive. Earth Ponies have innate magical inclinations, like super strength and being in tune with animals, plants, the earth, and nature in general. None of this is learned or actively summoned, it just comes naturally.

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It would be more like an Earth Pony driven colony far away from the Equestrian Kingdom. This would have to exist outside of the Equestrian Kingdom because they would still benefit from the raising of the sun, moon, and weather control provided by those ponies. Instead of some jerk having it out against Pegasus and Unicorns, I would just go with a natural environment where those Pegasus/Unicorn powers are useless. Then the Pegasus and Unicorns would have some negative tension being unable to perform to their full capacity.

 

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