Too small is our world to allow discrimination bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it let alone in the United States of America.
One already feels like an anachronism writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.