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sunidonuts:

I’m probably gonna get a lot of flak. but I really don’t care. Jontron does not deserve the shit hes getting on twitter right now. people have the gall to claim getting harassed is so horrible and immoral and then turn around and call this man human filth. scum. make fun of him and treat him like…

hello yes i am here to deliver the flak

this is, like, really apologetic

the irony being that jontron is not

Jontron is an honest man. he can say things the wrong way sometimes. a lot of people do that. but ultimately you can see if he truly feels he is wrong by logical standards he will back down and apologize, any reasonable person would.

but he didn’t. or, at least, he didn’t feel he was wrong by logical standards. instead he went off about ‘censorship’, which i guess he has confused with 'compassion’, because someone asked him to not use a rude word.

me and my friends usually make jokes. I make black jokes in front of my black friends and they make white jokes about me and we both laugh because we’re friends. if they are ever offended I apologize.

maybe that’s because you’re friends and not, say, one person broadcasting to hundreds of thousands of other people.

you should probably not make cracks about oppressed groups unless you are really sure your entire audience will be in on it with you.

and again, jontron did not apologize. he doubled down. (and then drew a naked comic of a female game developer, as i understand it. what a charming young man.)

they prefer to attack small jokes and friends because they’re easier than paying attention to actual issues that have an effect on minorities.

maybe having public figures constantly crack small jokes does have an effect on people. maybe. let me ask them.

ok i just checked and it totally does

they have no forgiveness in their hearts and it makes me sick to watch them treat people who do like trash and hurt them like it’s okay to treat anyone like that for having an opinion.

forgiveness? he didn’t apologize. he has shown no remorse. he has given entire interviews about how right he thinks he is on this.

hurt them? what if his words hurt someone else? why is only the backlash invalid, but you excuse his original actions — even almost-implying that he apologized or regrets them, multiple times?

for having an opinion? calling someone “retarded” is hardly an opinion.

i know the whole point of your post is to try to offer perspective, so fyi: immediately after reading this post, i glanced at twitter to discover that apparently someone has made “some very scary threats” against anita sarkeesian and her family. that is what is going on in the game industry right now. threats of violence over an internet documentary about video games.

but what really gets to you is that some famous youtube douchebag can’t be a dick without having people call him a dick.

maybe we’d be better off if people got called on being dicks more often.