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Are your trail names “woke” enough?

6/16/2020

 
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Image by Greg Montani from Pixabay
This article was originally written some time ago, but shelved because it seemed outside the norm of our standard article fair.  However, with recent events, it seems  like maybe an "outside our normal" article was needed.  Dusted off and ready to go, here it is.  Due to nature of the article, we will be turning off the comments for this one.

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​If you read the title of this article and began hate typing a comment about “social justice warriors” or “white privilege” or the “patriarchy”.  Just stop for a moment.  There is a real issue here, with real questions and maybe real answers.
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Can we, as mountain bikers, name trails in a way we find funny, cute or ironic, and in doing so create hurt feelings or harm to others?  How do we know if a concern is legitimate?  What can we do if we find a trail name offensive?

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