09-23-2008, 02:51 AM
guitarist wrote: What is revealed is less comfortable to confront: those who proudly carry the banner of "diversity" are, in reality, some of the most narrowly-conformist people you'll ever meet in your life.
People love to say that, but they are talking about people they have never met, and will never meet because they are phantoms.
I live and work in an extremely "elitist" community of artists and musicians and bohemians and gays, and we do not sit around discussing diversity or coffee. We talk about the same things anyone else talks about, including old TV shows. The difference is, we realize that not everyone who is different is being different just to impress a bunch of strangers somewhere in the midwest that we don't even care about. In fact, we aren't even different. We just "are".
Why are you so worried about people that you don't know? It's a waste of your time and brain cells. Fsck'em if they don't like what you like -- don't sit around worrying about it.