but that folk clubs and in particular their *membership* exist in a *1960's* anachronistic bubble.

This is interesting in the light of the Folk Against Fascism and Us and Them: folk music and political persuasion threads in which it becomes clear what the political aspirations and allegiances of the Folk Scene have been since its inception by The Baby Boomer Generation.

I am very much wary (and weary) of political opinion; this is very much a personal thing, as my interests lie with inter-personal humanism and a timely re-emergence of the anarchist humanist idealism of my youth which might allow a reason for innocent racism, but never an excuse for it, feeling as I do that these things must be understood for what they are, in terms of intent.

How far I'm prepared to go in applying that to a Folk Scene founded on radical and militant political thinking hangs in the balance. Maybe this is why I slunk off rather than confronting it, depressed and demoralised that such an inhumane sentiment had been reinforced in a context which would otherwise pride itself on its political humanity.