Ah, fandom. You never change.

“Instead of insulting us, [Hines] could be using whatever influence he has in social media to help recruit more PoC into our circles. They need to know they’d probably be much more welcome here than they might be elsewhere. (After all, many of us would love to befriend extra terrestrials or anthromorphs.)” - from the "Secret Masters Of Fandom" mailing list, a "private" forum for discussing running skiffy conventions.