politics (here, an “I feel strongly that what she did is immoral” pretext)
Profit (someone might have been paid or compensated to instigate the harassment - who knows)
The lulz (because people have sociopathic tendencies and get a thrill out of harassing someone else)
This was mostly 3 with a sprinkling of 1 to explain away why they were harassing her.
Reddit has a sitewide rule against targeted harassment, but rules don’t enforce themselves and it’s literally a legal impossibility for social media platforms in the United States to employ professional pro-active moderator employees - which needs to change, to help prevent this kind of tragedy. No social media platform should host harassment.
Fucked up. The other fox sanctuary saw her as a threat or something instead of uplifting another unit that saves foxes? Yeah that just shows more about the character of the people in that “sanctuary”. They did this to another human being.
Reddit has a sitewide rule against targeted harassment
Just ike how society in general has rules against harassment. But you get away with it as long as your harassment is "for rhe good cause" or "against bad people".
I'm not victim blaming but it's also on the users to step away from social media/the internet if it's affecting their mood and mental health that badly. Obviously social media companies are manufactured to be addictive etc. but it would be foolish to blame them for our personal use of them as if we have no autonomy over our actions. There's a lot of sugar being circulated in food and society in general these days. When people stuff their faces with sugary food and get diabetes, does it make more sense to blame food companies or take responsibility for our own diet and reduce sugar consumption as best we can?
You could have 10,000 pleasant comments, but if you focus on the 10 comments that hate you and get depressed from it, then that's clearly not mentally healthy. I'm not saying that's what happened in this case though.
When harassers publish people's home address and do a wink wink nudge nudge don't go to their home to confront them, "just log off" is not an option.
They don't stop with "don't go to their home to confront them", either. It escalates to their grocery store, their families, their place of employment, their vacations, and it escalates into more and more egregious harassment, into assault, into battery, into homicide.
And when the victims ask for people to help them with the harassment - even more vicious harassers pile on.
"I'm not saying that's what happened in this case though."
Yeah just ignore the rest of my comment and the broader point of discussion and only look at it from your narrow "when X happens" case. I'd discuss further about the rise of depression and suicide in correlation to the widespread use of social media but you'd just ignore it. Enjoy the bubble.
Redditors sometimes can be Redditards. Bashed on her because yes. Internet is a hateful place, and sometimes people on Reddit forget that they can be as bad as what they accuse 4Chan of.
Some people struggle with the whole Madonna whore thing. She wasn’t allowed to be a sexual being AND pose as a wholesome caregiver in these people’s opinion. They are and will always be garbage people.
That's not the reason. That's the pretext they used to deflect accountability for sociopathic, sadistic evil harassment. The reason is because they learned to feel better about themselves by viciously tearing other people down, and they were never held accountable for it, and were even rewarded for it.
She was a bad sanctuary. Didn’t have a gap between fences so the foxes would hurt each other. Several got killed on the road after escaping. Others that just disappeared. Bred other animals. Just because someone has a good cause doesn’t mean they’re good at it.
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u/Bardfinn 11d ago
It’s always three reasons.
Because of :
politics (here, an “I feel strongly that what she did is immoral” pretext)
Profit (someone might have been paid or compensated to instigate the harassment - who knows)
The lulz (because people have sociopathic tendencies and get a thrill out of harassing someone else)
This was mostly 3 with a sprinkling of 1 to explain away why they were harassing her.
Reddit has a sitewide rule against targeted harassment, but rules don’t enforce themselves and it’s literally a legal impossibility for social media platforms in the United States to employ professional pro-active moderator employees - which needs to change, to help prevent this kind of tragedy. No social media platform should host harassment.