<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">You posted a self-justifying bit about how hackerspaces should serve the community (and only the community) that fits there as they are now (which is just coincidentally white, het, male geeks) and any attempt to diversify it is an attempt to change the community away from what it should be and is activism. That’s just utter bullshit. I’m glad you find it amusing though. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">The rest of us prefer communities that are a bit broader than “people like me only, thanks.”</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Al</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div> <div style="color:gray"><hr style="style:linear">From: <span style="color:black">matt</span> <a href="mailto:matt@nycresistor.com">matt</a><br>Reply: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Date: <span style="color:black">January 26, 2014 at 4:28:23 PM</span><br>To: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> Re: [hackerspaces] Safe Space Policies? <br></span></div> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;">Also way to promote some false stereo types there to excuse your own bigotry. I lolled.</span></div></span></blockquote> <div id="bloop_sign_1390782525765907968" class="bloop_sign"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"></span>-- <br>Al Billings<br>http://makehacklearn.org<div><br></div></div></body></html>