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Matt Jamison's avatar

I recently started frequenting a climbing gym in the very red Dallas suburbs. I was surprised to see a huge transgender rainbow flag over the front desk. Its pretty obvious from the clientele that the climbing community codes left.

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Yes. The backpacking community is depressingly left-wing, which is part and parcel of the right's weird apathy towards environmental issues and the outdoors, except insofar as they can shoot it or farm it. Just enjoying creation on foot seems to be anathema, and I don't know why.

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