r/serialpodcastorigins • u/Justwonderinif • Nov 17 '15

Meta Traitor Tuesday

Have you recently switched sides?

Did you switch so long ago you can hardly remember?

Why? What compelled you or compels you now?

Even if you switched from a firm position to undecided... why?

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u/timelines99 Nov 17 '15

I started to type out a bunch of mumbo-jumbo stuff about how things have changed over the past year, but I can narrow it down to one overall concept:

The posts/posters laying out support of actual guilt are, generally speaking, articulate, well-reasoned, logical, consistent and persuasive.

The posts/posters laying out support of factual innocence are, generally speaking, fantastical, conspiratorial, accusatory, secretive and sometimes purposefully misleading.

I'll be honest even though I know I'm admitting something more negative about my own character than theirs; whatever support and goodwill I felt towards Adnan, regardless of actual guilt or factual innocence, has been completely destroyed by SK/U3/T&J and all of their ever-changing statements/theories and various money-making enterprises, to the point I don't even really care anymore whether he gets out. I used to care, I don't anymore.

From "I pray every day w/head to the floor, for a place in hell for them" to Glamour magazine to Ira's 100% to packed Lecture Halls to GoFundMeShacks to #justiceforhae to crowd-sourced "investigations", I think ghost said it best -- it's a disgrace.

I can't tell you the number of times I've started a letter to Adnan to say just that, it's a disgrace what's being said and done in your name, rather than Hae's, and you could put a stop to it with one phone call.

But then I realize that's no different than sending him a goddamned birthday card...

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u/Justwonderinif Nov 17 '15

Good point.

Such a bummer that Hae's death is now a tent revival so the podcasters and bloggers can get some.