For what it's worth - I agree with 'guests' comments about there being racism in the folk scene over here and also with the fact that the majority of them are 'sheep like'. (I had and interesting chat with a man the other night who referred to the black man at the bar as a 'darkie'! It turned out that he thought this to be a much 'nicer' term and not at all racist!) Like Hester and others I abhor racism/sexism and probably most of the other isms around and am happy to say my part when necessary.
The thing is that I wonder what good would be achieved by bailing out of mudcat? It seems that the majority of people on the site are reasonable - but we don't really know each other, so can tell. Certainly we are no worse, or for that matter better, than any other group of people and I wonder if you are tarring everyone with the same brush? I think maybe by leaving you are, as my grandmother used to say, 'cutting off your nose to spite your face' and losing an opportunity to have discussions with people who, in the main, share your own view of the world.