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The assault was evil enough, but the vilification of Justine in the comments by some makes my blood boil. The best antidote to fight darkness is to bring it ou
by milesf 13y ago
The assault was evil enough, but the vilification of Justine in the comments by some makes my blood boil.
The best antidote to fight darkness is to bring it out into the light. Thank you, Justine, for your ongoing courage to speak out. I cannot say I understand what you're going through, but I'm sure there are (too many) others out there who do. Surround yourself with friends and supporters who will stand with you.
You are not alone.
- AlisdairO 13y agoThere's absolutely no excuse for such behaviour - the man should be prosecuted. I wish Justine a lot of luck getting her life back on track. It's worth mentioning (since the volume of comments doesn't make it obvious) that it appears to be a single commenter doing the vilifying.
- steveklabnik 13y ago> it appears to be a single commenter doing the vilifying. It may appear to be that way, but many people have stated various things. If you haven't been following this on Twitter for the last few weeks, it can look different. It is certainly not just one person.
- AlisdairO 13y agoAh, fair enough - I only looked at the web page. That's incredibly disappointing :-(
- cegev 13y agoThe comments are... odd. I can understand leaving comments open as an illustration of the backlash that results from trying to talk about these matters, but at some point, banning particular people makes sense: the majority of the comments there are vile primarily because the majority of comments have been made by one apparently obsessed person making utterly ridiculous comments in a deranged tone. I fear that the shock of those comments hides what I consider the more important, problematic vilification going on in the comments, which is the argument made by a few sane people that talking about this, rather than keeping it a private matter, is not appropriate, and that Justine should have stayed silent and only gone to the police. This is perhaps more harmful, as it comes from people who aren't obviously deranged or trolling.
- steveklabnik 13y agoConsider that the person who would be doing the banning is the victim, which means that she would have to read all of those shitty comments, continually, in order to determine who to ban.
- stock_toaster 13y agoI cringed when I saw that comments were enabled _at all_ on that post.
- steveklabnik 13y agoJustine explicitly said that she's leaving them on in order to show everyone what happens when someone reports a sexual assault.
- stock_toaster 13y agoAh. I didn't see that mentioned in the post itself anywhere. Thanks for the info.
- steveklabnik 13y agoNo problem, it was on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaltineJustine/status/388908504209047552 https://twitter.com/SaltineJustine/status/388908504209047552
- pm 13y ago"Erin" sounds like "she" has an axe to grind with Justine.
- gingerlime 13y agoErin == Joe O'Brien ? (rien/erin...?)