https://www.resetera.com/threads/greg-miller-and-andrea-rene-handwave-notch-and-pewdiepie-racist-transphobic-and-anti-semitic-behaviour-up-gm-and-ar-respond-see-threadmarks.114457/post-20428503But this is what concerns me about some of the contents of threads like this: I wonder how many more people have left this forum for good just this week, never to return, because of the way some chose to address the issue here.
This thread was intended to highlight a conversation full of uninformed insensitivity, and make a plea for better judgement. It certainly was not intended to be the "Andrea is completely terrible" thread. Yet there were enough terrible posts about Andrea in this thread to make her, or anyone, not want to come to this forum ever again. How people think that the focus should be moved away from the issue (and the concerns raised by your fellow Era members), and onto YOUR own theories of who they are and how they got here, or onto gross personal attacks just because YOU happen to know who works in the industry that is related to her, is beyond me. A few posts up from this one even suggests that a woman fake her response for a man's sake. Do you know how terrible that reads?
So yes, Andrea described some contributions to this thread as being from "big ole douchebags". You think she's wrong? Don't continue to post things that have nothing to do with the issue at hand, and/or serve to prove her right. Understand from my initial experience with Kinda Funny, and let's hope that others catch on to see that it doesn't take very much to turn people away for good.
Gosh, if only you had some sort of, you know, like, power, to make people turn down the hateful rhetoric, or remove the obvious hatemongers and populist rabble rousers from a conversation, even on just a temporary basis, or had, like, any abilities to moderate the discourse, or shape what kind of site and community you belong to.
But what can you, wonderment, resetera.com LLC staff member, actually
do as an individual?
Just sit back and wag your finger after the fact I guess.