Whether you think their past is a bearing on who they are is not the point. Our fandom might be niche, yet we've been going strong for a good long while, and when our problems are bad: they also become uniquely magnifyed.

The fundemental disagreement between people like me, and apolitical, centrist and conservatives is that we don't need to be on the lookout for nazis in the fandom. That we would be better if we just shut up about it.