On Harassment, & What We Can & Cannot Do
From HERE by @victimofcowbuild
Here is my new statement.
I will, forever and always, love Mack/Sunny. But this situation her voting choices put this movement in are unforgivable to me now.
In 2016, I fell in with a horrible crowd of people. I wanted to feel like just another dudebro, so I voted for Trump. Shortly after casting my vote I was doxxed and bullied by this group.
I woke the fuck up. I saw my mistake. I cast a vote against people like myself. I cast a vote for an absolute shitstain who wants people like me and my family to fucking die. I am a registered Independent now. And for all the people of my own, and other marginalized, communities that my vote impacted in 2016, I am genuinely fucking sorry. And I learned the error in what I did.
Sunny has expected all of us to defend, to deflect, and essentially teach her what she did wrong. Sunny knows what she did wrong. She just doesnāt want to believe it. That she did not vote for Trump, a documented serial sexual abuser, because Biden is also gross, but voted for him because⦠of whatever her real reason is. I canāt stand by this shit.
I cannot stand up for this shit when itās SO CLEAR Sunny doesnāt see the error in trying to keep this anti-Asian fuckcake in office.
I will no longer be in contact or interacting with Sunny. I will always love her and be grateful, but the damage done to this movement because of this shit is too much.
We should be focused on Cowbuild. We should be focused on getting EAās attention. And that is where the focus of this will go from now on. Sunny knows where and why I stand on this hill.
Donāt fucking vote for someone who uses conservative Evangelicalism to keep people down. Donāt vote for someone who calls Mexicans drug dealers and rapists. Donāt fucking vote for someone who mocks disabled people, admits to grabbing AFAB by their genitals, and enacts policies to pave the way to the erasure of the LGBT+ community.
From now on, my sole focus is Cowbuild. We take down Cowbuild, we get EAās attention for what the politicianās daughter is doing, we can start taking down this entire Patreon Mafia.
Reposted this so that it doesnāt get lost in the shuffle.
But yāall I need to speak up because Bucky is not the wrongdoer here.
Letās get at least one thing straight: We are not responsible for Sunny/Mack.Ā
I, for my part, have cut contact and blocked her. Those who are still in contact with her have been putting distance between themselves and her because we all are still dedicated to the anti-permapaywall movement and to also get her to fucking take an actual step back, instead of just saying she will. But weāre all VERY upset, and REELING right now.
Letās get another thing straight:Ā There is also nothing else we can really do other than (obviously) condemn something a friend has said/done and hold her accountable.Ā
The information is out there. Itās not being deleted, itās there for people to see. And if it seems like weāve tried to not spread it around and roll around in the drama, itās because weāre trying to walk the line between figuring out how to deal with something a friend of ours has done/said, AND not let focus be removed from the anti-paywall movement. Give us some fucking patience.
If we could wave a magic wand andĀ ābanishā someone from the internet for a while, yāall might think weād have done as much with the permapaywallers who have been proven to be harassing and doxxing people in our community.
Note again that this is not in defense of Sunny. This is in defense of Bucky, who is a victim in this, as am I, and the other associates of Sunny who went to bat for her before all this came to light.
Bottom line: Stop harassing people toĀ ādo somethingā about Sunny/Mack when weāve done as much as anyone can do. And for those who donāt want to stop pestering and harassing: What are you trying to accomplish here? Certainly nothing productive, it would seem, so I pause to wonder if youāre not just pestering to be hurtful rather than because you actually care.
Give us some damn grace. Weāve done what we can and weāre trying to figure this out going forward. Stop demanding EVEN MORE from us because weāve done all we can. We donāt owe Sunny a defense and we donāt owe YOU the creation of an angry mob.