New Developments and a sad "adiaŭ"

I will probably be an Esperanto speaker for the rest of my days.  I will continue to attend our local meet-up, as long as it continues, if only in support of the others that come.

I will not be burning any of my Esperanto books, but I will also not be renewing my membership in any Esperanto organizations; I will do no more "varbing (recruiting for the cause)," and my will has been changed to divert all the assets that I had originally steered toward the Esperanto movement (the mid-5-figure range if anyone is interested; sorry, Esperanto-USA and Radio Verda) and give them to other, more worthy, causes.

You're probably asking why the sudden attitude change.  Well, yesterday saw more knife blades to my back from so-called "samideanoj (comrades, same-idea-fellows)" and I'm sick of it.  The slanderous language, mockery, and bullying I have received (especially the ones that were posted after yesterday's blog entry) from other Esperantists around the globe has shown me that the "community" (a term I now use very lightly)  is not worthy of any more of my time or money.  I wash my hands of it.

Esperanto had such promise, but alas, the spirit of "more Zamenhof than thou"(no pun intended)  not to mention the hypocrisy, arrogance, bigotry, slander, and condemnation I have received in the past few months over a perfectly correct, Zamenhofian, Esperanto word (albeit one that is rarely used, even though it is used in the Ekzercaro and also defined in the Universala Vortaro) has shown me that my time and energy can be put  to better use elsewhere.

I wonder, though..........would the reaction to my use of that perfectly correct Esperanto word have been different had it not been out of religious obligation but out of a sense of equality and tolerance and other such nice leftist buzzwords?  I guess that will never be known for sure.........however, based on some of the more outrageous comments I read yesterday, I really think it would have.  It's sad, really, that a community of people that touts itself to be oh-so-liberal and tolerant would allow such hatred and intolerance (no matter what the cause) to go unchallenged within its ranks.