/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

Chancellor Neighsay's comments at the end of the first episode were handled fairly poorly. They essentially dropped an anvilicious racist rant on everyone out of nowhere, when that isn't how that works. Socio-behavioral tendencies, like ethnocentrism, are largely created by reactions to things...like Changeling invasions and the general ruckus that Yaks bring around wherever they show up. Instead of handling these issues, and make the episode about something real that can be solved with a conversation, they decided to deploy a straw man that they don't have to explain before they destroy it. It is also incredibly hypocritical in the following ways:

1. Yaks can declare themselves the best, and this is seen as a quirk rather than something to be remedied. If a Pony did the same thing, it would be seen as a problem to be solved.

2. When Thorax says he can pull Ocellus out of school to avoid an international incident, putting his hive ahead of the values of friendship, it isn't seen as a bad thing. When Chancellor Neighsay puts the needs of Equestria before the values of friendship, he is seen as evil.

3. When Chancellor Neighsay shuts down the friendship school after Twilight Sparkle nearly starts a war, it is seen as a bad thing. If the Main Seven had started the school with just ponies first, they could have avoided that whole set of problems and solved the curriculum before almost setting Equestria on fire.

4. Ocellus, a Changeling child, was capable of destroying entire buildings effortlessly, by herself. That sounds like a good reason to be wary of them, just to be safe.

Chancellor Neighsay has legitimate reasons to feel the way he does - he's being handled poorly as a character so that no one thinks about his arguments.