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.

But anyway plant an apple orchard. On the Buffalo's, traditional stampeding grounds without their permission. Now the buffalo are a different species that dress up like Native Americans. Oh my gosh. Okay. Clearly making it clear that in the My Little Pony universe species as well as the different cath of ponies are allegories for race blocking a path central to their heritage.

The buffalo. [00:04:00] Led by Chief Thunder Hooves demands the tree's removal, viewing the land as sacred. We have a long and winding stampede trail that we run upon for many generations. The ponies refuse citing the investment in the land for food and survival. The resolution comes mid battle. Mid battle. So you may say, how do these ponies battle the the Indians?

So they, they, they battle them by throwing apple pies at their faces. So they bring apple pies as as weapons. Okay, so keep in mind in this allegory, apple pies are weapons, okay? Industrially produced weapons, the resolution comes mid battle. After Chief Thunder, Hove tastes an apple pie. Thrown at him as a weapon and proposes a deal where the ponies keep the orchard, but uproot some trees to create a clear path for the buffalo stampede.

In exchange, the buffalo receive a share of the apple pies, so they [00:05:00] trade the allegory for guns, industrially produced guns to the colonized people. It. Without making any like major concessions in terms of their industrialization plans. It's basically saying, oh, you people who are being colonized, you'll change your mind about this.

When you understand all of the great things you'll get from industrialization, like guns. There isn't really another way, and this isn't done as like a shaky compromise or something like this. Effing pinky pie does a whole song about how great this is.

So for viewers who don't know the show, the pony, the country themed pony that you're about to see talk is the world's avatar of honesty. Like she is a, a magically chosen pony once for generation, for being like the most honest a pony could possibly [00:06:00] be, and she defends colonization.

Speaker 5: They busted their ropes here and now they're supposed to bust their ropes again. Just 'cause some buffalo won't stampede someplace else.

The buffalo had it first. The settler is needed to live. Come on Apple.

Malcolm Collins: Can you like just Simone, you writer's room, they're like, let's handle colonization.

Okay. They didn't have to make an episode about colonization. They didn't have to make an episode where they dressed up a different species like Native Americans.

Simone Collins: No,

Malcolm Collins: they didn't have to make them. Childish and stampede pointlessly from one place to another. They did not. They, they did not. But they set all this up clearly.

'cause they're like, let's do a, a, a a colonizer episode. And the point of the episode could have been, we're not so different or something. No. They literally made the key conflict of the episode, the settlers taking their ancestral land and they literally made the resolution to that being [00:07:00] everybody wants the fruits of civilization.

Just compromise on your tradition.

Simone Collins (2): I mean, aren't, aren't the writers of this progressive though, what's going on? I do not

Malcolm Collins: know what, no, you will progressively see you go down this. I don't think they are. I think they may be like secretly like super racist. Keep in mind, this isn't like we, we regularly see in the show, or is this

Simone Collins (2): just the, the like progressive to racist horseshoe where when you remove the technical aesthetics of our reality.

You see their true philosophy just come through and how they actually feel about everything, which actually is, yeah, eventually everyone