1. My Little Pony: Racism is Magic (Ugh!)
    Ample racist hidden messages in the “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” show
    by: Wong Wai Song


    Warning: This article contains swear-words, and may ruin your appreciation and love of the “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” show, that is, if you are a fan of it. Viewer discretion is advised. (Don’t say I didn’t warn you.)



         Before I start on anything, let me introduce you, reader(s), a little bit about myself. I am a Malaysian-Chinese who is currently living in Borneo Island of East Malaysia. That is all.

         Alright. Let us begin. The “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” show has been aired in my country on every weekend morning since a few months ago. Apparently, the main message of the show, as its title implies, is all about “the power of friendship”. Sounds lovely, isn’t it?

         It is said in the show that the story is about different pony races, i.e. the earth ponies, unicorn ponies and pegasus ponies, living together in peace and harmony in the magical kingdom of Equestria. So, basically, there are only three pony races (or possibly four when pegasus unicorns like Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are included) in the fictional world of ponydom. And that means the ethnicity of this fictional world is different than that of the real-life. Well, at least it seemed that way until the fourth episode of the show, “Applebuck Season”, where a mule appeared.

         You know, me and my little sisters were beginning to like this show after we had watched the first two episodes of the series; the two continuous episodes about how six pony girls of different pony races and personalities become friends and they worked together to save their world from eternal night. So, it seemed like the show is not only about love and peace but also about toleration. Who doesn’t love shows like this one?

         However, until the fourth episode when I saw the part where Twilight Sparkle called her friend Applejack “as stubborn as a mule!” and then she promptly said “No offense.” to a nearby mule who then just replied “None taken.” impassively, I began to feel uncomfortable with the show. My point is, look, another race of sentient equine appeared in this show. Yet, it seems like the mules, although equines and are displaying sapience as well, don’t get the same treatment as the ponies. What is worse is that it seemed like the ponies deem the mules worthy of insult(s). Aha! This is where the first theme of racism appeared. Or that is probably just a careless mistake made by the show’s makers, I guess? After all, the show’s makers are humans, not ponies or equines. And the term “as stubborn as a mule” is an English idiom used by speakers of English language from among us human beings to imply someone as stubborn, right?

         But....... things get progressively worse in the show when it comes to the ninth episode, “Bridle Gossip”, where a female zebra named Zecora appeared. There you go; another sentient equine race: the zebra. While the moral value of the episode seemed good in the way that it is trying to teach youngsters to “not judge a book by its cover”, it is still problematic in the way of ethnicity.

         Remember what I said about it was implied in the beginning of the show that there are only three (or possibly four) pony races? After all, its title says it; “My Little Pony”. But now, zebra and mule appeared. There are probably donkeys as well by extension of the mule we have in this show. For those of you who don’t know what a mule is, a mule is an offspring of the result of ‘inter-marriage’ between a pony/horse and a donkey. Now, just what happened to the ethnicity of the sentient animals in this show? Isn't it supposed to involve only the pony races? Since we have various sentient equine races in this show now, might as well just rename it to “My Little Equines”. That sounds better, no? Unless you want to say that the zebras, mules and donkeys are ponies too. But that absolutely cannot be as Twilight said to her friends in that very same episode that quotes “I don’t think she(Zecora) is even a pony. She’s a zebra.”. According to Twilight, a zebra, although an equine, is not a pony. So, I think that mules and donkeys can’t be ponies as well.


    Zecora the zebra:

         The character of Zecora the zebra is depicted in a way that she is like some sort of “wise” African witchdoctor. She wears a pair of large, heavy gold earrings on her ears and clusters gold bangles on both her neck and one of her front legs. Although she speaks English in the show, she speaks in couplet rhyme and with an Africanesque accent. Also, her name: “zakora” is an old word for zebra in Oromo language, which is a widely used Afro-Asiatic language in West Africa. In that very same episode, Zecora stated that she came from a “far away land” where there are many others(zebras, presumably) who are like her. Very interesting. So, I guess that with all the facts about Zecora the zebra I have pointed out above, it is safe for us to assume that the zebra race in this show is actually an analogue of the real-life’s African/black skinned people. Hmm...


    It’s time for some analysis:

         I was really beginning to feel worried about the racial stereotyping of animal races with real-life’s human races in the show and I wasn’t sure if I should allow my little sisters to continue watching this show anymore. So, I made up my mind, that I would go watch and analyse the rest of the series online as fast as I could. As a brother, it is my responsibility to make sure that the programs my little sisters are watching do not contain negative or unwanted themes. And to have my little sisters growing up as racists as a result of watching racist themed shows is the last thing I want. It took me more than two months to finish watching the whole two seasons of the series online because (1) my internet connection is pretty slow, so I only managed to load one episode or two per day and (2) I couldn’t watch them every day because I am too busy with my school works sometimes. Nevertheless, I managed to finish watching and analyzing them all.

         And, surprise, surprise! Or should I say no surprise? Anyway, just as I thought; the ethnicity in this show isn't just about the earth ponies, unicorn ponies and pegasus ponies as the first two episodes of the series shown to be anymore. There, I found a bison race; a tribe of bison buffaloes that strongly resembles the Native American Indians, and yes, donkeys as well, in the episodes “Over a Barrel” and “A Friend in Deed”, respectively. Also, I have found quite a number of racist hidden messages(not so well hidden, actually) in the process of watching and analyzing the show.


    American Bison:

         Here comes the infamous twenty-first episode of the first season, “Over a Barrel”, where it involves a new frontier town named Appleloosa in southern Equestria, and the settlers of that town are all “cowboys and cowgirls” earth ponies who are having trouble for planting lots of apple-trees on the sacred stampeding land of the Native (American) Bison tribe without first asking for their permission (and with a very bad excuse that it is the only highland in the vicinity of their town they could find for planting apple-trees). The episode is a (horribly horrible) travesty of one of the ugliest and most tragic chapters of American history; the persecution of Native American Indians by white European armies and/or the “cowboys”. Only that in this show, the genocide and land-grabbing in real-life’s history are reduced to a pie fight and the story ends with the “Red Indian” buffaloes sharing their land with the settling “cowboys and cowgirls” earth ponies, just because the settler earth ponies won the bison buffaloes over with their “delicious” apple pies. (Yes! Apple Pies! A Western delicacy.) Ugh! Some neat revisionist happy ending! Ugh!

         Alright. Let’s analyse the ethnicity of the sentient animal races in this episode a bit, shall we? So: (1) the earth ponies of the new frontier town, the Appleloosians, are playing the part of real-life’s America’s “white European” settlers and (2) the native Bison tribe is obviously and indubitably the analogue of real-life’s Native Americans, considering the blatant use of the real-life’s Red Indians’ feathered head-dresses and tribal face marks the Bison buffaloes in the show are wearing as well as the tepees they built for their homes.

         One thing about this episode that I found outright offensive is the stereotyping of the Native American Indians as American bison. I am not trying to say that the American bison buffaloes are bad or anything, they are far from that. It’s just; we know that the American bison buffaloes are the main food source of the Native Americans since the beginning of their settlement in Northern America thousands of years ago. And guess what? During the conquest of America by the white Europeans in late 1880s, the European armies and cowboys nefariously hunted the American bison to near extinction, in the hope that by decimating the main food source of the Native Americans, they could weaken the Native American tribes and thus, force them into reservation; those Red Indians were either have to move away from their lands, or to starve to death. (The European armies and cowboys did think that they had hunted the American bison to extinction when there were but a few left unnoticed in the wilderness which caused the resurgence of the species many years later.)

         Still don’t quite get it after I have dragged all the hints in front of you? Fine, let me say it: one of the (hidden) messages in this episode is that the Native Americans are worthy of persecution just like how the American bison buffaloes were persecuted by the European armies and the cowboys. To put it simply, the show makers of Hasbro Company wished the Native American Indians were EXTERMINATED like how the American bison buffaloes were exterminated by the white European armies. Am I right? O evil racist white show makers of Hasbro Company.

         Anyway, this kind of symbolic racist insult to the Native Americans is not just like rubbing salt into wounds. It’s like pouring Aqua Regia onto wounds! The Native Americans were so badly and wrongly persecuted by the white European armies in late nineteenth century and now the show makers of Hasbro Company are wishing that the Native Americans were exterminated like how the American bison were exterminated by the white European armies? What kind of fiends the show makers of Hasbro Company are, anyway? Ugh! You know what? The more I write about this episode, the more furious I get! I wish I could stop writing this whole article. But I can’t. Because I need to expose what kind of evil racist the show itself is. Bah! Never mind. I am done with this part now, anyway.


    Donkeys:

         The donkeys in this show, according to my analysis, is an analogue of Asian or yellow to brown skinned people, though which of the Asian race it is, I do not know. Still, I think it could possibly generalize all Asian races. How I came to that conclusion, you may wonder. Well, it is because the two middle-aged donkeys from the eighteenth episode of the second season, “A Friend in Deed”, have dull, greyish brown skins, and black hair for their manes and tails. Also, those two donkeys in the show looked very much like “Westernized” Asians to me. I will talk more on this episode and those two donkeys later in the “mules” part. For now, I will just save them.


    The Ponies:

         Now, we all know that in this show, all the non-ponies are equivalences or analogues of real-life’s non-white people. So, American bison=Native American, zebra=African/black and donkey=Asian? Yes.

         Now you may wonder: “Just what real-life’s race analogue are the ponies, then?” Well, I dare say the “ponies” in this show, be they earth ponies, unicorn ponies, pegasus ponies or pegasus unicorn ponies, are nothing more than a representation or analogue of the real-life’s “white” people, especially those of Germanic and Romance races. Why would I say that, you ask? Well, my answer be:

    1.     All ponies in this show are generally speaking English(a Germanic language).
    2.     Some ponies, especially unicorns, are speaking French(a Romance language) occasionally.
    3.     In the twenty-third episode of the first season, “The Cutie Mark Chronicles”, Pinkie Pie’s flashback of her childhood memories shows that she came from a family of ponies that strongly resembles the real-life’s Amish people, who are a Dutch people(a Germanic race).
    (So, Pinkie is a Dutch. Honestly, I am not surprised; considering her real/full name: “Pinkamena Dianne Pie”.)
    4.      Many earth ponies, especially the like of the Apple family and the Appleloosians, are stereotypical Southern Americans or the “cowboys and cowgirls”, who are colonies of white European settlers (which mostly are a people of Germanic and Romance races).
    5.      Ponies are the only race in this show that have skin, hair and eyes of all sorts of vibrant colours, synonymous with the real-life’s white people having diverse hair and eye colours.

     The answer is plain and simple, and it needn't take a genius to figure it out.

    Conclusion: Ponies=whiteys and non-ponies=non-whites

         So, now we know what the ponies really are. (And, yes! The title of this show can be safely translated to as “My Little Whitey: Friendship is Magic”.)


    Mules:

         Now, about mules. As I have mentioned, a mule is a hybrid of a pony/horse and a donkey. We now know that in this show, donkeys are an analogue of Asian people while ponies are an analogue of white people. That’s right. Mules will indubitably be an analogue of white and Asian hybrids.

         In both seasons one and two of the series, I have noted on three occasions where the mules made their appearances: an unnamed mule stallion made a brief appearance in episodes “Applebuck Season” and “Hurricane Fluttershy” each, and a female mule named Mulia Mild in the episode “MMMystery on the Friendship Express”. And on three occasions the mules were insulted by three of the main characters; Twilight Sparkle, Rarity and Rainbow Dash. (We’ve got at least three racist bitches in this show.) However, no mule made an appearance during Rarity’s occasion and no one insulted the mules when the female mule, Mulia, made her appearance.

         In the nineteenth episode of the first season,  ‘A Dog and Pony Show’, when Rarity was called a “mule” by one of the Diamond Dogs who kidnapped her, she was deeply upset about it and she whined out loud, saying: “Mules are ugly!”. So, according to this girl, mules(white and Asian hybrids) are ugly. A pretty pony(white) girl like her shouldn’t be called a mule because that is an insult to her. But still, whether or not she meant it was debatable. She probably was just play-acting, trying to whine the wits out of those Diamond Dogs – she is a “Drama Queen”, after all. But again, she could mean it. And if she does, then she is a racist bitch.

         Still, I think it is very likely that she meant it when she called mules “ugly”, in the light that she is a beautiful-things-only fashionista. And I hate to admit that, the mules, both male and female, in this show, are purposely designed by the show’s makers (for some racist or speciesist reasons) to be physically less appealing compared to the ponies. Anyway, let us analyse this very-likely-to-be-racist-bitch’s saying, shall we?

         To put it simply, it goes like this: Mules(white and Asian hybrids) are the result of ‘inter-marriage’ between ponies(whites) and donkeys(Asians). Ponies(whites) certainly can’t be ugly because Rarity is a pony(white) herself. So that leave only the donkeys(Asians). Donkeys(Asians) are to be blamed for the result of “ugly” mules(white and Asian hybrids) because all donkeys(Asians) are ugly themselves.

         Ugh! Just let me get your tongues straight, O racist white show makers of Hasbro Company. Your message is that white people are all beautiful while yellow or brown skinned people are all ugly. Oh, fan-fucking-tastic! Then, allow me, on behalf of all Asian people, thank(damn) you for your snide comment on our appearances, O racist white show makers of Hasbro Company! You all are such exemplary Racist-White-Assholes! You and your brilliant indirect way of insulting Asians through insulting white and Asian hybrids!

         As for Twilight Sparkle, I don’t know if she is still a racist but she most certainly was a racist, as shown in the episode “Applebuck Season” where she said the comparative idiom that quotes: “as stubborn as a mule” as I have mentioned. Mind you, comparative idioms that involve animal(s) shouldn’t have been used in a show where all the characters are sentient, speaking animals; any sane person would immediately find it racist and/or speciesist when they hear such saying in such show, even if the races as well as ethnicity of the animals used in the show are not based upon real-life’s human races and ethnicity. Also, it is shown that Princess Celestia, the ruler of the magical kingdom of Equestria, is Twilight’s personal mentor. That means she is responsible for both of Twilight’s academic and moral upbringing. If Twilight is growing up as a racist bitch, I think it is safe for us to assume that Princess Celestia is a racist bitch herself, too; she must had taught Twilight that, being a pony, it is a OK to be racist against non-ponies. I wouldn’t be surprised. After all, what do we expect from a white– pardon, pony monarch?

         Now, a little bit about donkeys again. In the eighteenth episode of the second season, “A Friend in Deed”, there is a middle-aged donkey stallion named Cranky Doodle Donkey(*roll eyes* Oh, “Cranky Doodle”, eh? What a good name for a donkey.)  moving into Ponyville. In that episode, only Pinkie Pie, who apparently had learnt to not be a racist after the episode “Bridle Gossip”, tried to befriend him and welcomed him into that town. Still, Pinkie had been quite a classic fashioned big bully with the fake I-do-not-know-what-you-are-talking-about attitude toward him throughout that episode. (A whitey bullies an Asian?) Anyway, Cranky Doodle -shot- GAH! I was going to say: that middle-aged donkey stallion was reunited with his long lost love, a middle-aged donkey mare named Matilda, at the end of the episode. Finally! An episode with donkeys! Oh, but wait! I didn’t see Rarity anywhere around those donkeys, let alone seeing her interacting with them. I swear I saw her in the beginning of the episode (where Pinkie was singing horribly with a head-splitting headache inducing voice), but she instantly disappeared when Cranky– *gun clicking* err, I mean, that donkey stallion showed up. I guess that is because the show makers did that on purpose because they didn’t want us to see what kind of negative reaction that beautiful-things-only fashionista will give when she sees “ugly” donkeys around her. I say, this episode alone justifies my claim that Rarity is indeed a racist bitch. Oh, yes! Now I remembered that in the twenty-fourth episode of the second season, “MMMystery on the Friendship Express”, where the female mule named Mulia Mild made her appearance, I didn’t see Rarity spoke to her, even once.

         In the twenty-second episode of the second season, “Hurricane Fluttershy”, Rainbow Dash shouted out to the gathering pegasi, saying: “Be cool or be mule!” and then she promptly but insolently said “No offense.” to a nearby mule stallion, in which the mule just replied “None taken.” impassively. This part of the episode is very similar to that of the episode “Applebuck Season”, and the mule was the same mule from there and then, too. I think that the term “be cool or be mule” can be roughly translated to as “be cool or be lame”. So, according to Rainbow Dash, mules are “lame”. Oh, great! Another racist bitch we’ve got here.

         All in all, according to the racist ponies(whiteys) in this show (and, by extension, the show’s makers), it is a disgrace for a pony(white) and a donkey(Asian) to get married. And their offspring, the mules(white and Asian hybrids), are an abomination that is worthy of insults.

    To sum it all up, the mules, according to the racist ponies in this show, are:
    1.      Stubborn
    2.      Ugly
    3.      Lame
    4.      Worthy of insults

         Oh, Wow! What a racist show it is! Even if the ethnicity of the sentient animal characters featured in this show is different than that of the real-life’s one – which has been proven wrong over and over again, it is still racist and prejudice against mules no matter how you look at it; considering how they are subjected to such hideous, derogatory lines by the ponies as I have mentioned above. So, should I let my little sisters watch a show like this one? I don’t think so.


    Ponies(whiteys) and non-ponies(non-whites) are not and will never be equal.

         The show does play around with language with horse/pony related words. Most, if not all ponies in this show seem to have the habit of substituting the word “body” in some particular words like “somebody” and “everybody” with the word “pony”. That is, for instance, a pony will say “somepony” instead of “somebody” when they are referring to some unknown person. So, it seems that in this show, the word “pony” is used as a “humanitarian” word.

         When addressing a crowd, the pony giving speech will use the term “Fillies and Gentlecolts” instead of “Ladies and Gentlemen”, regardless of who are in the crowds. Still, I have yet seen a crowd that consists of animals other than ponies in the show so far when that happens(akin to the real-life’s “Whites only” places?). We can clearly see that the ponies in this show are very “pony-ethnocentric”.

         But, remember what I said about the ponies in this show are actually an analogue of real-life’s white people? That’s right. This show is actually heavily themed with “white-ethnocentrism” behind the mask of “pony-ethnocentrism”. That is another “hidden message” of yours in your show, right? O white-ethnocentric show makers of Hasbro Company.

         Anyway, I have noticed that the ponies in the show never once referred to non-ponies with their humanitarian word “pony”. However, they were right for not doing so; because non-ponies are not ponies. (Oh! By the way, that doesn’t mean non-ponies wouldn’t use the ponies’ humanitarian word “pony”(whitey). As shown in the episode “A Friend In Deed” where those two middle-aged donkeys used words like “everypony” and “nopony”, which included themselves even though they are not ponies. Apparently, those two donkeys(Asians) had long considered themselves ponies(whiteys). Ugh!) Still, this shows racial inequalities and disregardful-ness of non-ponies in the colonialist land of ponies and, what is worse, in a kids’ show.

         The ponies in this show could have simply used terms like “everybody” or “everyone” – which they do sometimes, instead of “everypony”. Still, they prefer to use “pony(whitey)” in the places of “body” or “one” most of the time because the pony(white)-ethnocentric ponies(whiteys) in this show think that ponies(whiteys) are the only humane race in their world. Or they could be deliberately trying to disregard all non-ponies(non-whites), and thinking that they, the ponies(whiteys), are superior to non-ponies(non-whites). Oh, what a bunch pony(white)-supremacist ponies(whiteys) they are. Right? O white-supremacist show makers of Hasbro Company.

         The ponies(whiteys) in this show do make distinction between themselves and non-ponies(non-whites). It is shown in the sixth episode of the second season, “The Cutie Pox”. When Applebloom was inflicted by a mysterious disease called the “Cutie Pox”, her elder sister, Applejack, exclaimed in panic when it got worse, saying: “We gotta find somepony(some-whitey) to mix up a cure! An’ fast!”, to which Twilight corrected her by saying: “Not somepony(some-whitey)... somezebra(some-blacky).”, referring to Zecora the “African” zebra witchdoctor, who seemed to be the only one that can save the little filly with her magical herbs. And of course, the wise and generous “African” witchdoctor came to them and cured the little filly’s mysterious disease, even though everypony in the town (or should I say “the show’s makers”) always treated her as a different “otherness” throughout the series. It is also shown in the episode “Over a Barrel” that, when the settling earth ponies and the bison buffalos were preparing for a “war”, the main characters running around the town worrying, with Twilight saying: “We’ve just got to talk some sense into them before somepony gets hurt.”. I guess it doesn’t matter to Twilight when the buffaloes get hurt. Oh well. Ponies only care for ponies, and no one else. Ah! So, Twilight is actually a pony(white)-ethnocentric as well as a racist.


    Griffins and Dragons:

         There are also the griffon and the dragon races in this show. These two races are unique, for they aren’t stereotypes or analogues of any of the real-life’s races, and they are real-life’s legendary animals. But nonetheless, they are non-ponies. So, it is safe for us to assume that the griffins and dragons in this show are equivalences of non-whites, too. Very little is known about the griffins in this show, so I will not discuss about them here. I will discuss about the dragons in this show, though.

         Alright. Let’s discuss about Spike the baby dragon. He lived his whole life and was raised among the ponies ever since he was hatched from his egg. He was either adopted by Twilight Sparkle, or was given to Twilight by Princess Celestia after Twilight hatched him from his egg with her magic. But I think it is likely to be the second. Nevertheless, he served as Twilight’s servant assistant.

         In the twenty-first episode of the second season, “Dragon Quest”, Spike started to question his dragon roots and wondered about his real identity after observing the “Great Dragon Migration” with his pony friends. After a night of musing, he decided to join the dragon migration on a quest of self discovery. Shortly after arriving in a volcanic land named Badlands(the destination of the dragon migration), he hanged-out with a bunch of teenage dragons after he proved his worth as a dragon to them. In this episode, those dragons are generally depicted as coarse, crude, violent and mean spirited (uncivilized barbarians?). After an unsuccessful attempt of phoenix eggs raid by those teenage dragons, Spike was saved by his pony friends from those mean teenage dragons and was returned home. In the end of the story, Spike discovered that, even though he is a dragon, he is a (civilized, kind and good) pony at heart.

         Why? Why must Spike gives up his real identity, his dragon self, and be someone else in order to be good? Why can’t Spike be a dragon and still be good, that is, a good dragon? And WHY must he be a PONY to be good? Ugh! Never mind that.

         Anyway, Spike, in this show, is a representation or a symbol of someone who has been uprooted from his own (non-white) culture and is put into a white colony before he could understand anything as a baby. And thus, all his good attributes are undoubtedly came only from the white culture where therein he was raised. And because his good attributes came from the culture of the society wherein he was raised, he owes the society and its culture for them. Hence, he should be assimilated into the society wherein he was raised. Verily, Spike can never be good if he had been raised among his own dragon society; he would have end up becoming barbaric dragons like those teenage dragons shown in the episode “Dragon Quest”. Ugh!

         The message here is; only whiteys and their culture are good, while non-white people and their cultures are bad. So, for a non-white to become good and acceptable by the whiteys, they will have to become like whiteys themselves. But...

    Still, that doesn’t guarantee you will be treated as an equal by the whites;
    Considering how Spike is designated as an “assistant” of Twilight’s.
    Or should I say he is actually designated as Twilight’s “bond slave”;
    For a life of bound slavery to him had Princess Celestia gave.
    Spike is doing all kinds of chores that would usually be done by a maid;
    Only that he is doing them for Twilight, and is working for her, unpaid.

         Spike, like all dragons, is a sentient, speaking animal in the world of ponydom. Yet, he has been completely stripped-off of his freedom right after he was designated as Twilight’s “assistant” as a baby. My horror!

         When I first watched the show, I had always thought that Spike is an orphaned baby dragon that was adopted by Twilight. But after I had watched the twenty-third episode of the first season, “The Cutie Mark Chronicles”, I am convinced that Spike was forced to be Twilight’s slave(indentured servant), rather than being designated as Twilight’s “assistant” by Princess Celestia. [And I would like to ask: why not designate a pony(whitey) as Twilight's servant assistant? Why a dragon? Why a non-pony(non-white)? Maybe you could fucking tell us why? O racist show makers of Hasbro Company.]

         In the episode “The Cutie Mark Chronicles”, Twilight recounted her memory that when she took an entrance exam of Celestia’s School For Gifted Unicorns as a filly, she hatched Spike out of his egg with her out of control magic before turning him into a giant baby dragon as well as wrecking all sorts of other havocs unintentionally right there and then in the process. Princess Celestia then came to Twilight and restored all havocs she wrecked back to normal, and, after seeing great potential in the little filly, she took Twilight as her personal pupil.

         Considering the fact that the entrance examination for Princess Celestia’s “magic school” must be prepared by Princess Celestia herself and that hatching a dragon egg is a part of the test, the Princess must obtains her dragon eggs from somewhere. But where did she get her dragon eggs? Did she perhaps steal all her dragon eggs from wild dragons’ nests? (Kidnapping dragon babies and using them as trial objects before enslaving them into serving her pupils who hatch them with their magic?) Could it be that the Princess actually stole Spike’s egg from his parent(s) (i.e. uprooting Spike from his own culture) prior to Twilight’s test? Just how many dragon eggs did Princess Celestia stole(uprooting those baby dragons from their own cultures before they could understand anything) in the light that Twilight isn’t the only one who had partook the entrance exam of Princess Celestia’s “magic school”? (Princess Celestia, the mighty dragon slaver?)

         I wonder if Spike will be freed of slavery when he grows up, or will he be serving Twilight for his whole life? I think it is likely to be the latter; Princess Celestia (the racist, white pony-supremacist monarch) must had brainwashed the infant Spike into believing that as a non-pony that is inferior to ponies, it is a virtue to serve a pony for his whole life. Since Twilight was the one who hatched Spike and that she is the Princess’s priced pupil, it is only natural that Princess Celestia will take Spike into Twilight’s service.

         Well, at least Twilight treated Spike more as a friend than as a slave throughout the series – which is a nice thing to see, even though Twilight is quite bossy toward Spike most of the time.

         Nonetheless, the message here is: non-whites are only good as whiteys’ slaves. Oh, yes! This kind of racist (hidden) message has been used over and over in many racist, white ethnocentric and supremacist shows since early twentieth century. And the show makers of Hasbro Company are just repeating what many racist show makers before them did in their shows, albeit with stereotyping.

         The Hasbro Company always depicts dragons to be crude, violent and mean-spirited, or at least them being hoarding and greedy beasts throughout the series of MLP:FiM. Spike is no exception; he too became a hoarding and “greedy old beast”(as Rarity called him) when he succumbed to his primal dragon instinct in the episode “Secret of My Excess”. All in all, dragons, in this show, have been quite a symbol of evil.

    Analysis: Dragons are non-ponies ~> Dragons are non-whites ~> Dragons are evil

    Conclusion: Non-ponies = Non-whites = Evil

    Blatant fantastic racism



    Overall conclusion:

    1.      Non-whites, even the westernized ones, are not and will never be equal with whiteys. Even half-whiteys(white and non-white hybrids) can never be on an equal footing with whiteys. But it is still important that whiteys should westernize as much non-white people as possible, because non-white people’s cultures are always dangerous and/or meaningless, while white-people’s culture is just so Wonderful and Perfect.
    2.      The European armies and cowboys should have just exterminated the Native Americans like how they have exterminated the American bison buffaloes. Possibly so it would have been a lot easier for the white European settlers to interlope the Native Americans' lands.
    3.      Non-white people, especially Asians, are all ugly. And it is abominable and disgraceful for whiteys to marry Asian people and to have children with them.
    4.      Non-white people are always a class lower than the whiteys and they are only worthy of being whiteys’ slaves.

    Yes! “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” is a Perfection of white-ethnocentrism and white-supremacism. Ugh!


    Bonus:
    Sham morals in the show:

    1.      When there is something you don’t understand and can’t explain with logic, you should just stop questioning it and believe in it. Aka “blind faith”. (Episode: “Feeling Pinkie Keen”)
    Description: In this episode, Twilight Sparkle got punished brutally by all kinds of terrific accidents and she suffered many humour injuries simply because she was being sceptical about Pinkie Sense and trying to investigate it. In the end, Twilight admitted defeat and she gave up trying to question Pinkie Sense and accepted that even though there are things you cannot explain, it doesn’t make them any less true. “You will just have to choose to believe in them.”
    2.      O non-whites, when (white) interlopers are seeking to exploit your people and your lands, don’t stop them, and don’t fight against them. Instead, “you got to share” with them and let them take advantage of you; i.e. let them encroach your lands. After all, white people know how to make better use of your lands than you do. (Also teaching white people that the conquest of others’ lands will be very, very easy as long as they throw the exploited some addictive cheaplucks; just like how the British Empire used to control and oppress Chinese people in China with cheap quality opium – for conquest reasons – throughout late Qing Dynasty.) (Episode: “Over a Barrel”)
    3.      When you feel like humiliating someone, never hesitate to do so, no matter what the situation. (Episode: “Hearts and Hooves Day”)
    Description: During “Hearts and Hooves Day”(ponies’ version of Valentine’s Day), when the Cutie Mark Crusaders were looking for a “special somepony” for their teacher Miss Cheerilee, one of them, Sweetie Belle, humiliated an old stallion by rudely flopping his mane messy while calling him “He’s too old.” in front of a crowd when he was delivering an eulogy during a funeral procession. (Teaching our kids that it is a OK to interrupt someone’s funeral procession for no good reason, too.)
    4.      O non-whites, you’ll have to be like a whitey in order to be good. Otherwise, you can never be good. (Episode: “Dragon Quest”)
    5.      My little whiteys, it is alright to be racist against non-whites. (Episodes: “Applebuck Season”, “A Dog and Pony Show” and “Hurricane Fluttershy”)
    6.      O non-whites, when your people and/or your cultures are insulted by us whiteys, don’t get offended. It is something you should be expecting. (Episodes: “Applebuck Season”, “Bridle Gossip”, and “Hurricane Fluttershy”)
    Description: In the episode “Bridle Gossip”, when the main six characters first accused Zecora of evil in the Everfree Forest, and then breaking into her home and destroying almost all of her belongings in her house just because of her alien physical appearance and her different culture, she didn’t particularly get angry or upset about it – she is an understanding, “sagely” witchdoctor, after all. And in the episodes “Applebuck Season” and “Hurricane Fluttershy”, when mules were insulted by the ponies with derogatory phrases, the mule stallion that made brief appearances in both of those episodes took “no offense” in that. These put the expectation that, when non-whites are openly insulted and disrespected by whiteys, they shouldn’t be angry or upset about it. And that they should just cater to the need (of insulting non-white people) of whiteys. WHAT  THE  FUCK? (Oh yes! Most, if not all white people really do have the need to insult non-white people. When my country was still conquered by the British Empire, the English people that stayed in our country were very fond of insulting our grandparents and great-grandparents in all sorts of ways while ordering them around bossily. If you doubt my claim on this, you can go ask anyone in my country to see if they will tell you the same thing.)

    There are probably more sham morals in the series that I overlooked, but I think the ones I have listed out above are quite enough.

         I don’t think I will want to watch and analyse its third and possibly coming seasons, because I don’t want to watch this show anymore; I have had enough of this racist shit that is called “Friendship is Magic”.

         I told my little sisters to stop watching this show and I explained why. Lucky my little sisters listened to me and they stopped watching it. In fact, they even started hating this show – which is a good thing, and they should be.


    My friends’ reactions after not even finish watching the first season of the show:

         I have friends of Malay, Chinese, Indian, Arab and some other Austronesian people here in my country who used to watch this “Friendship is Magic” show. However, they all stopped watching it completely right after the episode “Over a Barrel” (because they just couldn’t tolerate this racist show anymore) and we all came to an agreement that, this show, is a massive load of steaming excrement that somehow managed to successfully and miraculously overfill a gigantic, abysmal abyss that is the fantastic world of ponies/whiteys; the Ponydo(o)m.

         On the internet, I found many people or fans who are obsessed with this show that called themselves “bronies” (Ugh!) and that most, if not all of them are Americans and Europeans. My guess is that white people don’t find this show offensive because it is a white-ethnocentric show. However, since me and all my friends are non-white people, we found it very offensive when it comes to the ponies(whiteys) being racist and prejudiced against non-ponies(non-whites) in the show, especially how the fucking racist bitch Rarity called the mules(white and Asian hybrids) and, by extension, the donkeys(Asians) “ugly” in the episode “A Dog and Pony Show” and also how the racist show’s makers made the caricatures of the Native Americans (in the form of dull and violent herd of American bison buffaloes) and especially their stereotyping the Native Americans as American bison in the episode “Over a Barrel”.


    Some ugly truths in white-ethnocentric shows:

         I found that many white-ethnocentric shows are very fond of depicting non-white people as evil; i.e. most, if not all antagonists or villains in those shows are non-whites, and the heroes are all whiteys. In the case of MLP:FiM, most antagonists/villains are non-ponies, with dragons and a “brush-off” female griffin included, while the protagonists and the heroes/heroines are all ponies. 

         The racist white show makers also love to make fun of non-white people by making silly caricatures of them in their racist shows. Take Warner Bros. company for example; many of its racist shows always depict Arab people as violent, cruel and barbaric terrorists, while making stupid caricatures of them. [The Hasbro Company isn’t much better in this. In one of its other shows, “G.I. Joe: A Real American Racist Hero”, (a show I used to watch when I was five,) a G.I. soldier called an Arab man “camel jockey” in the episode “The Invaders”. (Mayhap we will see Hasbro makes villainous camel(s) as an Arab stereotype in the future episodes of MLP:FiM show?)] Hell. Let me tell you something: I have Arab friends and none of them are like anything those steaming-shits(the racist white show makers) depicted them to be.


    My little reminder: People are the same everywhere; all people, regardless of race and ethnicity, can be both good and bad. To accuse an entire race for being evil just because a minority or majority of them are bad is very shallow. And to despise other races just because their cultures and/or their colours are different than yours is not only racist but also very stupid.


    My message to (you) readers: To all good parents and guardians out there who do not wish your little ones to become racists when they grow up, don’t let them watch the “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” show. The themes in this show aren’t as promising as what its title says, and there are many sham morals and contradictions in it. For those of you who haven’t really watched the show yourselves and are doubtful about everything I have said about it, I suggest you to go watch it and judge its themes with knowledge and wisdom yourselves. Perhaps then you will see the rotten themes I have seen in this con show. And if you are a racist and a white-ethnocentric yourself and you don’t care about everything I have said, so be it.


    Lastly, my message to the show makers of Hasbro Company: GO  FUCK  YOURSELVES  IN  HELL!  YOU  RACIST  MOTHER-FUCKERS  AND  YOUR  FUCKING  “RACISM  IS  STEAMING-SHIT”  SHOW!  I don’t care if you bunch of Heaven damned racists call me an oversensitive-freak or whatsoever but we non-white people are totally sick and tired of being insulted by you racist white people over and over again in your fucking racist and white-ethnocentric shows! Don’t give me any pap about all the racist stuffs in your shows are unintentional or just for fun! Save that for racist idiots like yourselves! And cursed are the ones who aired this show as well as all other racist themed American shows in my country and by doing so, condoning racism and white-ethnocentrism and white-supremacism in our multiracial country! Anyway, goof job, O racist show makers of Hasbro Company, for your shows of Fuck-tastic Racism!
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