"'Folk police' is hardly an insult "
Yes it is, and you know it
I's ususlly refined by some people when they find themselves at a loss for words and have to resort to bad manners as "folk fascist" or "purist"
If you don't agree with my please dont try to insult my intelligence

"just a gentle reference to those who think that their interpretation of folk is the only one"
If you have another definition, please give it, but bring a consensus with you so everybody can understand you
Fork rock is only one of the genres that have created an oppressive atmosphere with the use of these terms
WE could resort to name-calling like yours if you wish, but I'd rather try to argue rationally - haven' used the term sniger snogwriter in yyears and have never referred to anybody as a "police"anything
I know young people who detest Shakespeare and Dickens and Beethoven and Louis Armstrong.... but I wouldn't wish to change any of them to attract those people - why on earht==th should folk song be any different ?
If they can't accept folk music for what it is - tough - it's never going to be4 anything else
I came to folk music when I was 20 and nearly walked away because I found the watered down version (The Liverpool Spinners) too bland - luckily I was encouraged to search out the real thing and when I found it and came to terms with it it bacame part of my life - I was serving my time as an electrician on the Liverpool docks at the time
If I could do it then I see no reason why any other young person can't do the same.
If you water whiskey down you end up with a taste for watered whiskey (vomit)
There really is no antagonism on my part - it's a case of thaking what's on offer or walking away
Jim