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Yeah...definitely making too big a deal of this.
Like Solumina said, Steampunk isn't a wish to go back to that time period, it's a wish to go back to a time period that never existed, because it's totally unreal and unfaithful to the actual history.
If you find a steampunk who says things like, "Wouldn't it be awesome if we could still live in a time where black folk couldn't drink out of the same water fountain as me?" Then be offended.
Most of them are more like, "When I dress like this I get to pretend I'm in a world where everyone travels by blimp and I don't have to go to my minimum wage job at Staples tomorrow!"
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