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I am really, seriously annoyed with Burning Man, at the moment, and am not so sure that I'm going to ever be in a forgiving mood, after this.

I went onto ePlaya. You know, ePlaya, that place where the most offensive and outrageous stuff you'll ever see in print shows up, and is left there because "we don't censor"? Well, they do. Somebody calling for a war of extermination against my Mother's people? That was OK. My suggesting that driving those who know how to build thermonuclear weaponry into such a state of rage and despair that they'd work for anybody who'd get them out of the poverty into which they'd been thrust might be kind of dangerous? Intolerable. That had to be stopped, right away.

Truly, sensitivity worthy of a Klansman.

Somebody was talking about how he couldn't make it to Burning Man this year, I offered a little reality about what the long term implications of being poor were, and the likely consequences that this was going to have for the future of the West. Much whining about negativity followed from the rich kids, and after I talked back to some of the more condescending ones, found that I had been banned from the forum.

I don't take kindly to censorship or classism, or racism, either, for that matter, and I've been treated to all three by a community that dares to talk about its commitment to "radical inclusion". As long as those who are included are rich, Christian and white, I guess, with the rest of us expected to be properly grateful for being allowed to breath.

If that's how the community thinks, then I don't need to volunteer my time for that. Until I'm given a real reason to think that this isn't how burners think, I'm locking up this and my other groups, and spending my time on something more worthwhile.

My foes list on ePlaya

That's what ePlaya now calls the people we put on ignore. I'd recommend that you put these people on ignore, as well, before you even start to post. These people are often prominent, not because they have anything to say worth hearing, but because they are so outstandingly obnoxious that they've driven almost everybody else away. Others were either painfully stupid, or odd, in a bad way.

This might look like a long list, but remember that this is for a forum with a few thousand members.



A Jester
Antioquia
aspectacle
Badger
BAS
big baby jesus
Bluemandrew
bluesbob
blyslv
Bob
Box Burner
bradtem
buckycat
can't sit still
capjbadger
Captain Goddamit
cowboyangel
Da Mule
Deb Prothero
Dr. Pyro
Elorrum
fbcota
Fire Moose
FireShaman
gaminwench
goathead
H.G. Crosby
Hillary
hollywallydoodle
ibdave
Isotopia
jkisha
JohnPaulQuillard
junglesmacks
Kinetic V
kman
littleflower
lucky420
Mantaray
marcgorcey
maryanimal
neon tetra
oneeyedick
pizzamancer
Rabbi Dali Rick
Roberto Dobbisano
Sail Man
sdowney2002
Simon of the Playa
SoSS
swampdog
Teo del Fuego
theCryptofishist
thirt33n
TomServo
Trishntek
Ugly Dougly
unjonharley
zcassidy
Packoderm



As I say in my signature,

"When in doubt, hit the ignore key. You'll seldom miss anything worth reading, and your blood pressure will thank you."

Words to live by.

OK, then

Nothing to do with ePlaya, but this was different. I found it on DeviantArt. Obviously, it is a rabid zebra experiencing an acid trip. If you click on the image, you'll be able to more fully appreciate the trip. Not recommended for people with epilepsy.


Zebre by ~Nebonadtoboi on deviantART