Yikes.

I’m also taking him at his word. What he did was target an Asian person to perform racist Asian stereotypes at, and he thought this was funny. I’m not accusing him of lying. I’m accusing him of doing a racist thing, which he did.

“you do admit that if he had really been doing that seriously it would have been worse, right?”

Questions. First, is the “perception” Charlyne’s problem? They were telling a story of something that happened to them. Was it their responsibility to manage perception for Cross’s benefit?

If you read the entire thread, you would notice that the person to whom I was responding based their argument on the fact that they were “instructed in elementary school” to use “he or she” rather than “they.” That is what I was referring back to. There’s no possible way that could be read as bullying.  But if you…

“Yi publicly tried to destroy Cross’s life and career”

“I understand your argument, but why do you think that this should be convincing in any manner?”

I never said anything about being afraid or ashamed to go to the police.  Did you mean to post this reply to someone else?

I didn’t say otherwise.

I was paraphrasing you, dummy. But your ignoring me would be great, actually, so please do go ahead and do that. Reading the results of your “very basic critical thinking skills” is not a good time.

Right, well I’m choosing to go ahead and use advanced critical thinking skills, which tell me that “she didn’t go to the police and therefore she’s lying” doesn’t hold even a drop of water. But you’re happy using just the most basic critical thinking skills you can muster so you can stick with where those got you.…

That’s you, and what you do is irrelevant. Millions of people post on Instagram daily. The fact that someone else shares their story on Instagram rather than writing a letter to the editor or whatever doesn’t make them a liar. Lots of people have learned that going to the police accomplishes exactly nothing.

“Turns out this is just Yi’s MO”

Exactly. David Cross did something shitty to her, and she told about it, and he admitted it. So I don’t know why the OP is acting like she makes stuff up out of whole cloth to destroy people’s careers.

Of course it is.  And literally no one was actually confused by this.

“Of course people don’t go the police when no crime occurred and dozens of witnesses can testify to that fact.”

“instead of *checks notes* waiting for someone to write a comment with a list of potential perps on an article published by a dying website?”

“I doubt anyone intentionally injured her on set, people aren’t like that in general.”

“Assault” actually covers a lot of things. I bet you don’t go to the police with every “assault” that happens to you. When a man puts his hands on my waist to get around me I don’t go to the police. That doesn’t mean it’s not shitty.

Of course, which is why all I said was that they are called “they.” I wasn’t like YOU TRANSPHOBIC POS.