What might Mudcat be like if--

       --it weren't inhabited by bigoted idiots like claireise, et al?

What might Mudcat be like if--

       --the asylum weren't being run by the inmates?

Answer: it would cease to exist.

IMNSHO, the presence of people of color is barely tolerated here, and many people chiming in to this thread show just how thin the veneer of tolerance and widespread the veiled hostility is towards them.

This place is Anglo and Anglo American dominated, clannish and xenophobic in the extreme. And the belligerent majority intends to keep it that way. They would much rather worship at the altar of bogus "bardic roots" or "Renaissance Europe" or perpetual re-fighting of European and US civil wars, than engage in the present day world of folklore scholarship. People here don't want deconstruction, they want resurrection of European & European American domination.

Their loss. But then again, this is just one tiny, insignificant, backward looking backwater of the web world.