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While I definitely see where you are coming from, simplifying people's emotional reactions to things to "some people need to chill out" belittles their feelings

While I definitely see where you are coming from, simplifying people's emotional reactions to things to "some people need to chill out" belittles their feelings in a way that isn't helpful. We can support folks who are being attacked unfairly (as @rvagg appears to be from a cursory review of the "evidence" against him) without belittling those who feel maligned.

mlsarecmg 9y ago
Until you realize the same people that are crying out now have been doing this before. Kas Perch, one of the agitators, https://twitter.com/nodebotanist/status/887724138516951049 https://twitter.com/nodebotanist/status/887724138516951049 used the same tactic against Crockford last year (Nodevember conf), also without any concrete evidence other than "he made me feel bad." If you go through regular tweets of the other heckers like Kat, https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/900414216888139776 https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/900414216888139776 they're breaking their own CoC daily, but that's apparently fine because hating on white/men/straight/christian is considered PC. Why do you give these sick people lee way is beyond me. They are bullies and they should be recognized as such.
- _Marak_ 9y ago
  > They are bullies and they should be recognized as such. 100% agree. I've had to previously block both of these users you mentioned for harassment over Twitter. It got to the point where one of them started taking out of context screenshots of my Twitter stream and attempting to rally other SJW twitter users to send harassing messages to me. I did my own research weeks ago and found that Rod didn't do anything wrong. If anyone finds evidence to the contrary, please let me know.
- anfedorov 9y ago
  So are they bullies that need to be stood up to or are they stressed out folks who need to chill? Given nothing else than what is here, I would err on reading those tweets as coming from a place of struggle, not a desire for domination. Folks being unable to follow their own rules when positions are swapped is true more often of these sorts of rules than one might expect.

mlsarecmg 9y ago

Until you realize the same people that are crying out now have been doing this before. Kas Perch, one of the agitators, https://twitter.com/nodebotanist/status/887724138516951049 https://twitter.com/nodebotanist/status/887724138516951049 used the same tactic against Crockford last year (Nodevember conf), also without any concrete evidence other than "he made me feel bad." If you go through regular tweets of the other heckers like Kat, https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/900414216888139776 https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/900414216888139776 they're breaking their own CoC daily, but that's apparently fine because hating on white/men/straight/christian is considered PC. Why do you give these sick people lee way is beyond me. They are bullies and they should be recognized as such.

_Marak_ 9y ago
> They are bullies and they should be recognized as such. 100% agree. I've had to previously block both of these users you mentioned for harassment over Twitter. It got to the point where one of them started taking out of context screenshots of my Twitter stream and attempting to rally other SJW twitter users to send harassing messages to me. I did my own research weeks ago and found that Rod didn't do anything wrong. If anyone finds evidence to the contrary, please let me know.
anfedorov 9y ago
So are they bullies that need to be stood up to or are they stressed out folks who need to chill? Given nothing else than what is here, I would err on reading those tweets as coming from a place of struggle, not a desire for domination. Folks being unable to follow their own rules when positions are swapped is true more often of these sorts of rules than one might expect.