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i know for someone who doesnt like discourse anymore and usually tries to stay a way from it im talking about it an awful lot recently but since everyone is making a statement here are my two cents on the matter,not that anyone gives a shit
as i said in a thread earlier this week i dont think this "fuehrerbunker mentality" as i like to call it is particulary helpfull. dont get me wrong i think its a good thing pretty much everyone (except the few usual suspects) is disowning the type of behaviour displayed by
certain individuals around here but grand statements about how you had this feeling all along or simply logging off until the storm is over are ultimately meaningless since the people in question never were particulary subtle about their behaviour
i dont think this is a case of "if only we had known earlier" but of "if only we had believed certain people when they told us who they are" and i include myself in this as well.
when i felt that a former mutual crossed the line i simply muted and never thought about it again. tho that was before the outright grooming behaviour but the writing was already on the wall.
but heres the thing this wouldnt had happend without me and many other people fueling the flames. as i, once again, said earlier there was a time when i was the edgelord extraordinaire of a now pretty much defunct but similar twitter clique
and the person i question was part of this clique as well. i considered her a close mutual if not a friend and often it was me who cheered her on when she said something "edgy" or started a fight. and often she cheered me on when i did those things myself.
often i was unnecessarily cruel against people i considered "political" enemies or even simply annoying even in times of great distress for them. and most of the times my behaviour was meet with attention both positive and negative but tbh more often positive
this is dangerous. as we see now this can lead to people building a brand out of cruelty and harmfull behaviour and in an attempt to not lose the attention this behaviour gets worse the longer it goes on
im not saying this to excuse anything or blame anyone,far from it. but the climate we often had and have here can lead to people abusing the high tolerance level we have for harmfull or edgy behaviour and statements
of course you and i are joking when we said we want to kill all hikers so this person who said pedophilia should be normalized must be joking as well. they are just edgy like us. we know her,shes a friend,she wouldnt do this. chill. dont be a cop.
but the truth is and we should be honest to ourself if we want those things from keep happening again and again is that we witnessed some kind of fucked up grooming cult grow directly in plain sight and for months we did nothing bc we didnt thought anyone involved was serious
