I keep hearing about this, and i keep wondering what it was all about, and i keep hearing that to really find out what it was all about i had to go out and read a shite-ton of stuff that would probably make me angry, so i've been holding off.
My curiosity is piqued, tho. I keep wondering how an activity that is based in creativity, requires (relative to the overall pool of possible activities and vocations in life) little physical interaction, and is largely populated by people who understand what it means to be socially excluded at some level could potentially be so rife with something like racism.
I don't want to just assume that, like many of the useless debates in our culture, it's a bunch of generally good and compassionate people on both sides merely suffering from normal communications limitations and then emotionally set off by a few rabid extremists on both sides... but i think i do. Of course i wont act on that assumption without doing the research.
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My curiosity is piqued, tho. I keep wondering how an activity that is based in creativity, requires (relative to the overall pool of possible activities and vocations in life) little physical interaction, and is largely populated by people who understand what it means to be socially excluded at some level could potentially be so rife with something like racism.
I don't want to just assume that, like many of the useless debates in our culture, it's a bunch of generally good and compassionate people on both sides merely suffering from normal communications limitations and then emotionally set off by a few rabid extremists on both sides... but i think i do. Of course i wont act on that assumption without doing the research.