Reply #423: A more complete response

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As I have said before on this website, I am in recovery and one of the hallmarks of recovery is the making of amends. Making amends isn't simply apologizing for the past but taking concrete steps to help those you harmed recover from the harm you inflicted upon them. You have gone a considerable way toward making amends.

I know that our side hasn't be perfect in this. We have seen slights where they may not have been. Anyone is going to be informed by his or her past. My past leads me to believe that some subset of straight people, I don't know numbers or who, will be put off by my being gay. I know from my present that the subset is declining both in terms of numbers and of virhelence of that belief. I admit, I sometimes don't encorporate that change in my thinking all the time. I hope someday that I will encorporate it.

Seeing the likes of Yardwork and Vanje back is nothing short of fantastic. I hope others who were removed can and will join them.