Sorry for the confusion. I'm saying it is more prevalent comparatively. While there is similar behaviour in other communties, you can't say there isn't more of it in the RPG community on average.
I can say that and I do say that. I follow politics pretty closely; given the forum rules, I won't post specific examples, but this exact kind of thing happens ALL THE TIME--very public disputes over very stupid and trivial stuff, among the people who govern entire nations*.
We're just a microcosm, and a fairly benign one at that.
[size=-2]*I won't name specific nations either. I daresay it happens in every country, though some are more public about it than others.[/size]