Racism In Equestria.

[Harmony And Rarity 195]

I was in Show Discussion and I saw this post about Applejack hating magic. Even though I don't think that applejack hates magic I feel like if she did it would be kind of Racist. Keep in mind I do not mean the type of Racism that we have. Im talking about TYPE of pony, not color. I think the best and probably the best known example of this is in Hearths Warming Eve. Where all 3 types of pony hate each other. And where rainbow dash clearly states that they are not Equal.

 

 

"You Earth Ponies Are Hogging All The Food For Yourselves!"

 

Don't know if I got that quote right, but it was something like it. I feel like a sentence like that would be sort of considered racist. Because it is only addressing earth ponies.

 

What do you all think?

[ShadOBabe 19,055]

Eh, I'm not sure how anything in Equestria could hate magic, because from my perspective, just about everything in Equestria is linked to magic. ALL kinds of ponies use their own brand of magic.

 

Unicorns: General use of magic, channeled through their horns

Pegasi: Walking on clouds, controlling the weather

Earth: Much stronger with a close connection to nature

 

And don't tell me you think the Apple family getting ready for the Zap Apple harvest wasn't magical? I heard something great that someone once pointed out. It's the idea that Pinkie's "Pinkie Sense" is also magically based, and Applejack learned from her Granny that sometimes you don't have to question why magic works the way it does, just that it does and you should trust it. Granny's crazy tactics for helping the Zap Apples grow and the Pinkie Sense are both reliable, so Applejack accepts them.

 

And I believe they both represent Earth Pony magic.

So if you didn't like magic, you wouldn't just have a problem with Unicorns. If you didn't like magic in Equestria, you would essentially not like the world, since magic is infused in everything.

Edited December 14, 2013 by ShadOBabe

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"You Earth Ponies Are Hogging All The Food For Yourselves!"   Don't know if I got that quote right, but it was something like it. I feel like a sentence like that would be sort of considered racist. Because it is only addressing earth ponies.  

 

 

Sorry, I'm not seeing how this line would refer to racism? True, it's only talking about earth ponies, but RD, to what I heard, is just saying the earth ponies have all the food and aren't sharing the portion they are in titled to for weather control. To me racism would be talking down to once races. 

[ShadOBabe 19,055]

 

 

To me racism would be talking down to once races.

 

Which would be emulated closer when RD's character said that Earth Ponies were stupid or when Rarity's character said Pegasi were brutes.

[hawkflame 3,315]

I was in Show Discussion and I saw this post about Applejack hating magic. Even though I don't think that applejack hates magic I feel like if she did it would be kind of Racist. Keep in mind I do not mean the type of Racism that we have. Im talking about TYPE of pony, not color. I think the best and probably the best known example of this is in Hearths Warming Eve. Where all 3 types of pony hate each other. And where rainbow dash clearly states that they are not Equal.

 

 

"You Earth Ponies Are Hogging All The Food For Yourselves!"

 

Don't know if I got that quote right, but it was something like it. I feel like a sentence like that would be sort of considered racist. Because it is only addressing earth ponies.

 

What do you all think?

Rainbow Dash didn't say it, Rainbow Dash's character in the play said it. An important distinction to keep in mind. Anyway, I think that the rest of the episode definitely did show that pony prejudice is real, or at least was real back in the day.

 

I kinda see where you're coming from with the idea of magic hate, but it's a little different than "real" racism in that it's based on what ponies do as much as who they are.