#also thinking about that time where a known public figure in gamedev (a queer woman) had been caught doing an Oopsie | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

rawliverandgoronspice · 8 months ago

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kind of following a lot of reaction to a bunch of recent and less recent events, but I feel like semi-regularly there's a kind of situation where someone online does something massively fucked up, and that at some point we begin to tip past genuine outrage and immediate jokes and begin to slip into the reign of casual cruelty and cynical pettiness, where it becomes not only okay but encouraged to be the worst version of yourself when interacting with the particular Villain of the Day, and while I feel like it's inevitable, I feel like that's kind of a repeating pattern that might not foster the best emotional reflexes around ideas of punitive justice and perception of the guilty party etc etc

#thoughts #this is kind of about somerton but not only #where I've seen people slipping from funny joke that are honestly well deserved and don't go past the realm of reasonable public shaming #especially given the situation #into shit that I feel should be off limits and are just wound-picking instead of actually relevant #also thinking about that time where a known public figure in gamedev (a queer woman) had been caught doing an Oopsie #like not a small one it was pretty bad #but she was eviscerated with a vitriol and glee I never saw applied to like #actual known rapists in the industry that we KNOW are rapists and still massively in positions of power #I don't know #thinking of Patterns #thinking about the theory of the Sacrificial Trash #like again not at all defending somerton this guy is a Mess on wheels #but I still feel like we should be careful of that moment when fighting back a malicious narrative becomes #“dehumanizing the guilty person is now what's fun about this"#and it upstages the need of taking the appropriate measures to defend the community #even when I don't feel particular sympathy for the guilty party I'm not sure it's a very healthy instinct to foster past a certain degree

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