I leave for a weekend - to go to Geek.Kon 2011 and get my geek on, no less! - and come back to find out that this Purge thing has gone way out of hand. And there's a boycott, and everything!
And I go and start looking into what happened, and I see that TiMT is gone, and I think, "OK, he was kind of a shit-stirrer, whatever." And then I see Adept2U is gone, and I think, "Wait a minute, I just started reading him! He was good!" And then I look a little further and see all of the really, really good people on this site who got ratings privileges revoked. And then I start thinking about how many of them just so happen to be Black, and/or female. And then I read Robinswing's diary, and about a half-dozen others, about the boycott, and their legitimate reasons for it. And even though I'm a White guy... it pisses me off, on their behalf, that the banhammer fell unequally on the people at the bottom.
So this is my last diary, and I won't be commenting for awhile. I'm not even saying how long. I'm not GBCWing because I don't like to burn bridges, but this is a TTFN. More on my thoughts over the fold.
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