As a member of an associated steampunk group, I can assure you that none of us dispute the right of the mall’s management to selectively kick people out for no good reason. However, if they are going to quote policy, their policy needs to be both accessible and applicable. The mall’s management was slow to respond and then implied untruths about the group in question. The community didn’t take well to that.
And part of the reason that we are raising a bit of a stink is specifically because these phantom policies are disproportionately and unfairly applied to people in other subcultures and groups. I want to make it harder for small-minded people to get away with discrimination against other groups and if this is what it takes to get people talking, we’ll run with it.
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