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Topic	Hiking has a diversity problem. These BIPOC groups are working to fix it
s0nicfan 03/17/21 6:26:38 PM #13:	CyricZ posted... Maybe it's my location? I dunno. I could never read the latimes. Thank you. The idea that companies are trying to sell overpriced hiking equipment to new demographics is possible, but given the spread of groups here, it doesn't seem all that likely in the context of the article, unless it's an advertising thing with the LA Times specifically, which I grant is not out of the question. And as to the main subject, I wasn't personally aware specifically of an aversion of people of color to the American outdoors, but I don't especially doubt it Oh, I meant in a more abstract or indirect way. Like, I wouldn't be shocked to find that all these nonprofit advocacy groups are getting at least some funding from hiking retailers who would obviously benefit from more people becoming interested in hiking. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:951818479] in Hiking has... [t:79354149]...</cite> <quote>CyricZ posted... </cite> <quote>Maybe it's my location? I dunno. I could never read the latimes. Thank you. The idea that companies are trying to sell overpriced hiking equipment to new demographics is possible, but given the spread of groups here, it doesn't seem all that likely in the context of the article, unless it's an advertising thing with the LA Times specifically, which I grant is not out of the question. And as to the main subject, I wasn't personally aware specifically of an aversion of people of color to the American outdoors, but I don't especially doubt it</quote> Oh, I meant in a more abstract or indirect way. Like, I wouldn't be shocked to find that all these nonprofit advocacy groups are getting at least some funding from hiking retailers who would obviously benefit from more people becoming interested in hiking. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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