Who wanted Nepenthe's hot take on the Ellis situation?
tI've been going back and forth between posting in here, mainly because I don't think I'll be treading any interesting ground here. I think this nonsense is ultimately an indictment of online liberalism, but in ways I don't think people here truly understand.
I've dealt with similar theatrics and blow-ups as Lindsay on Era itself but on a significantly smaller scale. Perhaps it's that difference in scale that allows me more energy to parse the good faith from the bad faith when I want to engage, but I do agree with her that eventually you just kinda stop giving a fuck, if only because the more energy expended, the more meager the returns, especially when you count for things like sleep and appetite. You start understanding what does and does not matter, that you don't really owe people responses, and eventually people will move on, either through forgetfulness or because they know the window of opportunity has passed to keep the flames going, as is the case with the speed of the Internet.
But ultimately shit like this- these huge instances of hundreds or sometimes thousands of people coming after an individual or small party on the left for some insensitive take- could honestly be avoided if people, especially white liberals, could just mind their own fucking business, and maybe go touch some grass too. The Raya take was ultimately an issue between Lindsay and the Asian Americans who had something to say about her tweets, whether they agreed or disagreed. The same goes for other groups like non-binary and Black folks who have been aggrieved by past comments and content. Those were the parties of the conversation.
However it was, in the end, mainly white folks who began making up the brunt of the harassment, both well-meaning yet terminally-online liberals and right-wing chuds who smelled blood in the water. This not only drove her off, but ultimately the backlash was so outsized that any attempt to rerail things back to the original conversation, a conversation that should've been had and was valid, was summarily included in that harassment. And ironically, Asian American folks were getting caught up in the fray as being just as bad as the bad-faith assholes, for "bringing up old dirt" and "kicking a ($20k/mo. income-earning) creator while they were down," and for effectively making up their own grievances.
And, you know...that's not okay. Because at this point it's a tacit admittance that these issues don't really matter to the left like we put on, at least when it comes to our content creators (especially if those content creators are white women.)
Lindsay ultimately did not deserve harassment to any degree, especially to the point where she began to start "shitting blood" if I'm recalling her Patreon good-bye accurately. But a whole bunch of you threw Asian Americans, and by extension Black and Trans people, under the fucking bus with this one in an effort to defend her from the actual villains in the story. A lot of people aren't going to forget that when it comes to Breadtube theatrics going forward.
tl;dr: the bad guys where white people and the other bad guys were also white people throwing Asian Americans, Black, and trans people under the bus to defend from the first set of bad white people. And that's the real takeaway from all of this.
So nepenthe is making the exact argument Dave Chappelle is making when he jokes about trans people and lgbtq racism towards black people. In that instance she attacks him, in this instance she embraces his talking point 
In this grand Olympic level competition of mental gymnastics, trying to understand who-can-say-what depending on their Defcon level of oppression, they seem to be missing the key point, that is of course purposefully buried in this new trend of anti-intellectualism: The argument should be under the microscope, not who's proposing it.
Which is so obvious, it's mentally painful to state out loud.
You can read what she wrote, then read what her critics wrote, and use you critical thinking (that which separates you from a dog, you know) and determine who's point of view makes the strongest argument.
Or you can tally up you oppression points and determine who has right of passage regardless of what they're putting forward.
This endless race to claim Victim-Of-The-Year isn't just in and of itself lunacy, isn't just the complete disregard of what makes up a rational, progressive and scientific society, but it's also a self defeating game of mutual disregard, as the next person's struggles are an implicit attack to yours.
Further more, it doesn't really help bring forward any real actionable solution in the (more than noble) battle for equity.
But no, it's better to keep playing this pseudo Rock-Paper-Scissors.
