I just wanna point out that consistently bickering with people who have different opinions on how to deal with "bully's", especially ignoring them, is no better than the bullies that harass people in the first place .w.
For me, my relationship with the fandom is a double edged sword. While I generally enjoy the community and the people apart of it, I also hate the contra that it's the most "accepting" fandom out there. While many people are accepting of many different other people and ideals and etc, there are many people that claim this but absolutely aren't. I find it funny when someone preaches their acceptance of genders, races, etc, but then turn around and act very "speciest" towards certain groups of peoples choices of fursona's. I've also seen quite a few people that don't accept certain orientations, subgroups, etc.
And as I believe it's already been mentioned, furries make themselves great targets most of the time. They open themselves up to criticism because they feel they have to prove something to everyone and stand up "against" criticism of the fandom. "Furry pride" is a wonderful example. It mashes the worst parts of "gay pride" with the worst parts of "furry pride" half of the time, and you end up with gay femboy Red Rusker images being slathered everywhere with furries preaching their supremacy over their "oppressors."
Is that the majority or every person/furson? No, but it's the most loud spoken of the minority.
And maybe this'll be an unpopular opinion but hey, it's not the first one I've ever said on here!