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I think the thing that made me feel even more strongly about pulling my pledge(and it being justified and it still just sucks) over the whole thing has been seeing the response of the community itself. The people that were against it because likely they were already getting shit on got shit on more by people that never had/have and probably never will have to deal with any of that shit. Basically people that spoke up about this just got double screwed and painted as crazy and maybe we were. That's kinda how the world feels asking anyone for empathy makes you a crazy SJW.
And the favorite position of the day is of course "I don't see any issues". There has not been a single response that I've seen that has answered everything we cited 1 by 1 to maybe let us see the light of why we should forgive again. Just dismissiveness. I feel like the attitudes were more l appropriate towards someone that made 1 mistake and got unfairly crucified not several ones all stemming from the core issue of a lack of empathy.
The replies to Jones' tweets are infuriating. So many people just don't get it and bring out terms like 'snowflakes' and 'outrage' and 'melodrama' and 'safe spaces'. People suck.
This is the thing that got supported(and oh boy this is like everywhere in the response to Jones' tweet and the unofficial EZA subreddit), intentionally or not. It's the stuff that makes me just lose all faith in L+R cause it's sets the precedent for speaking up just to get shit on from everywhere for people that already get shit on in real life, to speak is being a crazy, being a controlling freak that apparently doesn't respect freedom or some shit, nothing the other side does can ever be so wrong to give up on them so just tough it out people. It's stuff that makes people that are already cornered in life feel even more cornered so what are they supposed to do they can only leave at that point.
https://twitter.com/cokelogic/status/937280842988163072
Cause for this and every issue relating to empathy responses will always be like this.
It's just incredibly insane to ask them to tough it out again.
But it is what it is. I'm still torn over what to really do but for now I feel like the most important thing to me is disconnecting to the point of being a really casual fan the whole thing is only upsetting since I kinda was invested in it. It's far easier to swallow the shit of the internet when there are no expectations and it's just the usual stuff.