<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px">So, whether or not their feelings match the shared hallucination we</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px">call reality isn't the point. </span><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">But that is exactly the point isn't it. Why should we be bending over backwards to accommodate people who aren't grounded in reality instead of checking and realigning that perception to reality. Just because a new space was created does not mean that the reasoning for doing so is valid. It also doesn't follow that everyone joining that space is doing so for the same reasons as the founders founded it. Plus there is another kink to this situation and that is the new hackerspace is women only. Curves gym does well too, does that mean all other gyms are cesspools of scum and villainy? (Better not quote Star Wars, it has incest in it...) Don't even get me started on the irony of starting a gender based hackerspace as a solution to sexism.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Let me give you an example from a previous hackerspace. I was showed up with a couple of my friends. I asked them to go inside while I lockup the car. As I enter a woman comes out from the back of the hackerspace, sees my friends and panics because she is racist and thinks they are robbing the place. Should I give in to her feelings and leave because she is uncomfortable around black men? Or do I tell her to grow the fuck up and quit being racist? Or that whole guy with the racist tattoos thing. Now that he's been banned I guess it's ok to say that he only got the tattoos to prevent himself from being raped by white supremacist gangs and had 2 tattoo removals that never quite got rid of them. It is common for these gangs to place these tattoos on people under duress in very visible locations as a billboard for their movement. </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">He hates those people for branding him and hates having to explain his tatts but he makes people FEEL unsafe so excluding him is moral right? </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lets not forget that feelings exist on both sides. How do you think my friends felt when they were responded to as a threat. What about the prison tat guy? Think his feelings were taken into account? The problem is that one viewpoint has become a sacred cow and any dissent is punished with public shaming , ganging up on, and banning. Its like high s</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">c</span><font face="arial, sans-serif">hool all o</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">v</span><font face="arial, sans-serif">er again if you do not pro</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">v</span><font face="arial, sans-serif">e you are part of the tribe by agreeing with their </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">v</span><font face="arial, sans-serif">iewpoints the othering begins Is there any question why nerds and geeks want to stay away fro</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">m</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> that</span></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 7:05 PM, LinkReincarnate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linkreincarnate@gmail.com" target="_blank">linkreincarnate@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px">Also please elaborate on who is using a group of people in the space as the objects of a hack? What you seem to be implying is that people who think differently from you are dangerous and physically violent and the only way to prevent them from hurting people is to police their speech.</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 7:02 PM, spinach williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spinach.williams@gmail.com" target="_blank">spinach.williams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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