Non-furries love anthropomorphic animal characters. Our culture is full of them; all cultures are. Furries didn't invent sports mascots, Looney Tunes, the Easter Bunny, Aesop's fables, or the Egyptian pantheon. Obviously it's not the appreciation for talking animals that people actually hate. So why is it that, out of all the weird subcultures that exist, the one that gets the most hate thrown at it is the one centered around a love of something universal to all human cultures?

It's because the founders of the modern furry fandom were gay and poly, and the fandom has always had an overwhelmingly LGBT membership because it used to be the only non-fetish community that openly accepted gay and trans people. All anti-furry hate is either a negative reaction to the fandom's queerness or a deliberate attempt to attack the LGBT community by proxy.

This is a weird amount of preoccupation to have with a subculture of mostly queer people who just watched too much Disney and read too much Warrior Cats or Animorphs as kids.

In general furries embrace their cringe and are unashamed of the stuff they enjoy, can’t say I see anything near as wholesome from the company you keep when you’re hand wringing about sexual degenerates that should be banned from schools.

Gays. Black people. Non Christians. Your exact statement has been said about all of them.

You can not be homophobic and have similar thoughts on a subject with a group that is.

Very little has a strictly black and white separation in this world, it's all shades of grey.

You don't like Bugs Bunny?

Idk man that doesn't quite sound like hate to me. More of a sting dislike. I think the point still stands.