I’m actually happy for the results of it. No kid should have to go through that manipulation and that abuse just so their parents can be Internet famous. What’s worse are their rabid fans, some of which threatened some of the many people who pointed out the abuse. No, sorry, in no circumstance is any of that okay.

I’m pretty confused about the corner of Youtube that feels that it’s their right or obligation to “debate” everyone that happens to annoy them. To me it seems fairly clear that debate is productive provided two things are true:

Dude, nobody is handling Anita with kid gloves. She said some stuff, one person said it was wrong of her, the other one said that Anita verbally defending herself is fair and warranted in the context of the harassment she has to deal with. (Incidentally, being “calm and even-handed” doesn’t explicitly constitute…

They loaded up the first three rows with people some of whom have been posting photoshops of her for years. I think her response was fairly restrained compared to how I would have reacted if I encountered someone who spent years harassing me online loading up a bunch of seats at a talk to intimidate me.

This is the argument of a mental toddler. By this logic, she should just stay quiet and try to “rise above it,” or some other bullshit.

The official VidCon response to the situations was a well rounded rational one.

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I guarantee you the same people who argue that Garner would not have died if he had just obeyed the law are horrified that this kid died for breaking a “minor” law.

We execute people for:

I had a conversation with a group of people about this before. My thing is you can definitely lessen your risk of having an interaction go sideways with most non-biased/racists cops.

No, this is not how it works fellas. It is the job of the police to interact with the the public without, y’know, killing them.

How ‘bout a bill that requires classes teaching police how to interact with kids?

The resistance crowd started the normalization of political violence? Uh fuck you and where were you during a year and a half of Trump’s rallies, where people were getting brutalized and he promised to pay their legal fees for their thuggery? Do you really expect the left not to respond to the violence that Nazis…

It’s also irresponsible to vote for a president who we all knew would deepen racial and political divides and create more extremism in this country. But we sure as hell did it, didn’t we. And folks are surprised that there are more shootings, more domestic terror, more hate crimes, more brazen extremist violence. This…

You do know how these people respond to other people being shot, right? By voting to remove any healthcare for the mentally ill and making it easier to get guns. I’ll reserve my sympathy for their staff and the incredible Capitol Police officers who were shot (who I will add, at one time, Rand Paul wanted to vote to…

Gather ‘round, kids. The long thought extinct ‘Not’ joke has made a reappearance in the wild. Be gentle, lest we scare it away.

This has to be the reason for all of the male outrage regarding abortion (or even birth control to some degree). Just why would anyone care that Julie down the street decides to get an abortion? WHY would they care? It has nothing (NOTHING) to do with them and does not affect them in any way. Who hurt you, dipshit?…

This is it. It’s why there are far more anti-choice men than women, and why there are so few pro-choice men. They just want to be able to force women to have their kids. If a woman makes the ‘mistake’ of fucking one, then her pregnancy is the man’s prize (not my words, but the words of men online). They don’t care if…

Ugh. Men are so bothered when we reject their seed or, like, have rights as if we’re people.