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Aug 15, 2012, 19:43

Bhruic

D-Rock wrote on Aug 15, 2012, 13:15: Let's say I'm a white middle class male and I want to start my own meetup group. Let's call it "White Middle Class Male Gamers". How long do you think that group would stay in existence (or would it even be approved as a group in the first place?). Suddenly it's not fair to me -- because I'm a majority I can't exercise my right to free speech and tell everyone how proud I am to be the person I was born as. I seriously doubt I'd be able to (on an 'official' level)congregate with people in my specific demographic that have a common interest without being labeled a hate group. Think about it realistically -- does anyone think something like this would NOT cause enough controversy to be next to impossible to establish or maintain? Approved by who? AFAIK, there's no one that is required to "approve" a group of people having a meetup. If you want to have your own group called that, go ahead. Might some people complain about it? Certainly. But other people complaining doesn't stop you from doing something. What you effectively seem to be arguing is that everyone that is "different" in some fashion should do their best to hide that fact and not call any attention to it. If they just pretend hard enough to be "normal", perhaps people will leave them alone and stop picking on them. That's a really poor way to have to go through life. Not to mention an unrealistic one, when you consider how many groups already exist. Christians of all the various stripes have their meeting places. So do Muslims. So do Hindus. Etc. You have groups for model trains. Hell, you have groups for knitting. Why is it that as soon as someone wants to form a group for something with which people have issues, they are just grand-standing and calling attention to themselves? Shouldn't the same be true for all the rest? Should Christians stop having group meetings because they are calling attention to the fact they are different than non-Christians? This comment was edited on Aug 15, 2012, 20:22.

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Comment [quote="Bhruic"Aug 15, 2012, 19:43][quote="D-Rock"Aug 15, 2012, 13:15]Let's say I'm a white middle class male and I want to start my own meetup group. Let's call it "White Middle Class Male Gamers". How long do you think that group would stay in existence (or would it even be approved as a group in the first place?). Suddenly it's not fair to me -- because I'm a majority I can't exercise my right to free speech and tell everyone how proud I am to be the person I was born as. I seriously doubt I'd be able to (on an 'official' level)congregate with people in my specific demographic that have a common interest without being labeled a hate group. Think about it realistically -- does anyone think something like this would NOT cause enough controversy to be next to impossible to establish or maintain?[/quote] Approved by who? AFAIK, there's no one that is required to "approve" a group of people having a meetup. If you want to have your own group called that, go ahead. Might some people complain about it? Certainly. But other people complaining doesn't stop you from doing something. What you effectively seem to be arguing is that everyone that is "different" in some fashion should do their best to hide that fact and not call any attention to it. If they just pretend hard enough to be "normal", perhaps people will leave them alone and stop picking on them. That's a really poor way to have to go through life. Not to mention an unrealistic one, when you consider how many groups already exist. Christians of all the various stripes have their meeting places. So do Muslims. So do Hindus. Etc. You have groups for model trains. Hell, you have groups for knitting. Why is it that as soon as someone wants to form a group for something with which people have issues, they are just grand-standing and calling attention to themselves? Shouldn't the same be true for all the rest? Should Christians stop having group meetings because they are calling attention to the fact they are different than non-Christians? [/quote]

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