I like this line from Cliff Bleszinski's response to all of this:
"I find it disgusting that an online community would revel in the fact that they may have potentially contributed to a person losing their job. Even then, if they didn’t have anything to do with it at the end of the day, that they have the collective ego to think that they could do that. In a world of Indie-go-go and Kickstarter, where we can do great things in numbers, we should know better.
I’d rather live in a world where someone can slip up, say something that the world doesn’t agree with, and not have the collective internet lynch mob up their ass.
Well behaved people rarely make history.
Deal with it."
I absolutely agree with this. Even though I support being courteous and thinking before you speak, I don't think anyone should be lynched by an online mob for making mistakes in a random comment or saying things people disagree with. If something someone said is deplorable, you can disagree and even condemn what they said, but people don't need to hound them, threaten their life, or celebrate them losing their job. It's disturbing how ruthless many people are willing to be at a whim. No matter how little someone actually knows of an individual, simply crossing someone at all can be treated by some as a cardinal sin. You can see it here and most anywhere online, and it's extremely unfortunate.
There's a big difference between speaking against something you disagree with and setting out to destroy someone and revel in their demise. That is simply gross, and we can all be better than that.
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