EISPIRATEN

HikeUp wrote: Looking up FOMO...brb

Uncle Rico wrote:

HikeUp wrote: Looking up FOMO...brb

At least you didn't have to Google "Tosh.O" ?

HikeUp wrote: I guess I was exercising my old white man privilege to oppress Tosh.O.

1. Gatekeeping is racist

The #nogeotag movement is a form of gatekeeping, or elitism. It involves individuals — usually those unaffected by structural racism and privileged to have grown up hiking and camping — asserting their self proclaimed authority over who should and shouldn’t be allowed into certain outdoor spaces.

Most of the articles begin with a white writer reminiscing over a much beloved hot spring, a treasured swimming hole or a rustic hiking trail from childhood that has now been “ruined” by a sudden influx of selfie-taking hikers.

They never stop to consider that their childhood was privileged with outdoor experiences not available to the majority of working-class families in the United States. They never stop to consider that this is a privilege many people in the U.S. would like to experience if given the chance. Their lack of self-awareness is pretty stunning.

Of course, their view is the opposite. The writers are united in a belief that certain types of people are inherently bad for public lands. Those certain types of people include new and casual hikers, selfie-takers and urban hikers (code for black and brown people). The writer then explains how important it is to keep those people away from geotagged locations in the first place. It’s for environmental reasons. It’s for their own safety. Their ask is simple: stop geotagging. Show, but don’t tell. Entice, but give away nothing.

Similar to Leave No Trace hysteria, the pushback against geotagging involves ordinary people deputizing themselves and asserting authority they don’t actually have to keep the outdoors “pure” or “wild”, “pristine” or simply, the way they remembered it from childhood by excluding people they view as dirty, loud, offensive, or simply not sharing their values.

Protect public land from deforestation, uranium mining, single crop farming, oil and gas extraction — yes! These are all worthwhile causes. But protecting public lands from people of color? Seriously? Urban hikers, who are disproportionately affected by climate change and environmental racism, are frequently posited as a major threat to public lands in racially coded diatribes posted around the Internet. Yes, it is just as ridiculous as it sounds. Also, have they never heard of an image search? The digital age is here to stay folks. And we need practical solutions that don’t involve gatekeeping.

David R wrote: You need to be a little more woke HU and get up to speed on your TLAs. Here are some for you to work on BRB, AFK, IMO or IMHO, SMH, BTW, IDK, IRL, TTYL, OMG, OTOH, L8R, NSFW, NSFL, and FWIW. Once you got these common ones down we'll get into the more interesting less used ones.

David R wrote: You need to be a little more woke HU and get up to speed on your TLAs. Here are some for you to work on BRB, AFK, IMO or IMHO, SMH, BTW, IDK, IRL, TTYL, OMG, OTOH, L8R, NSFW, NSFL, and FWIW. Once you got these common ones down we'll get into the more interesting less used ones.

HikeUp wrote: So racist bots are oppressing the human race now. Is the Terminator going stalk the trails now looking for Zuckerberg?

AW~ wrote: I could see a movie where Terminator is after someone and then is interrupted/intercepted by THREE buses who doublepark and unload touring foreign nationals who are social media-ing away.

AW~ wrote: Hopefully he can answer too how to handle if someone has too much chips out for the amount of dip they have. But if they open another dip, they will have too much dip for their chips.

Sean wrote:
Got any more? I'm on a roll.

HikeUp wrote:Cut roll or hand roll?

Taco wrote:Please kill me.