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Days After GamerGate Figure Zoe Quinn Accuses Former Boyfriend of Vague Sexual Abuse, and Days After He's Fired from His Job and Ostracized from His Industry, Man Kills Himself"#CancelCulture" goes to where it always wanted to go: to "cancelling" people's actual lives. Now, no one's truly responsible for another person's decision to commit suicide. But... what did you think would happen here, Zoe? You dated the guy. You knew he was mentally unwell and had battled depression and mood disorders his whole life.
Being mentally unwell was kind of his brand. What did you imagine he would do after you turned the industry from which he derived his livelihood and purpose against him? This story is from Russia Today -- sorry to link them, but for reasons that are pretty obvious, the leftist American media refuses to cover this story. The unraveling of Alec Holowka’'slife in the days after facing unproven accusations should remind us why, at some point, civilized society turned away from mob rule and embraced due process. Note the resort to very vague accusations which are meant to be read in a variety of ways, while hyping up the emotive, non-factual language. Does "physically confined" mean that he kidnapped her? That's what she seems to want you to take away from this -- but she admits later he "acted normal" in public, suggesting that this wasn't an actual kidnapping, but that she merely felt "confined." The word "isolated" is similar -- was she imprisoned, or did he just discourage her from going out to meet other people? The latter is a sign of a jealous and controlling nature -- but being a bad boyfriend is not the same as false imprisonment. The language used -- deliberately, I would say; calculatedly -- puts the idea of actual physical kidnapping in the minds of the hysterics of the SJW movement while not quite committing her to that claim. Now we get to actual specific factual allegations of bad behavior -- though some of this sounds absurd:
Zoe Quinn is not a small girl. He weight fluctuates, and she gets pretty heavy at times. I don't know what this "walk[ed] me around the house" means. It can't be fully literal. And it could be a single incident of a guy doing something he thought would be taken as either sexy or silly, but which was taken badly. The language again is vague. By the way, part of the reason for doubting the "confined" and "isolated" language is that she also whines that the pair agreed that she would buy her ticket to Toronto, but that he would by her ticket back to wherever she lived. She complains he did not buy her that return ticket. So is she just saying that her "isolation" and "confinement" was over a ticket the guy wouldn't pay for, and which couldn't cost more than $250 or $300? She got a friend to pay for the flight back. "Confinement" over!
Oh, he trash-talked her to people. Good thing Zoe Quinn is so firm on the principle that one must not spread vicious stories about people, to ruin their reputations and make them unemployable!
Note that this, too, is written to suggest that he heard of similar behavior -- even though his words make clear that he had not heard of similar behavior. "The things Alec did during the bad times were worse than we knew" -- so this guy did not know about these "worse" things until Zoe Quinn spazzed it out all over Twitter. On what basis, then, does he claim these are "extremely plausible"? Apparently only on Alec's not-similar but still erratic past history, and the Gold Standard word of Zoe Quinn. "We aren't trying to prove a point or appease a mob or show we're great," he reassures, adding that he is "depressed." Yes you were. Zoe Quinn, for some reason, has been made some kind of High Empress of Twitter and Deplatforming and when she says someone needs to be #Cancelled, all cowards and soybois will snap to.
Read the rest of the article -- It proposes a "Call for Sanity," suggesting rules (social rules, prudential rules) about how to responsibly make charges on Twitter, or better yet, not make them on Twitter and instead turn to dispassionate authorities to offer a ruling before setting the mob on someone. I wasn't going to post on this for several reasons. First, I'm not sure it's fair to lay someone's suicide at the feet of someone else, even if, as in this case, it sure looks like Zoe Quinn and this Scott Benson knew of this guy's shaky psychiatric history. Is it fair to blame someone for someone's suicide? Usually not. How about if they know, or should have known, the person had suicidal thoughts and decided to trigger that suicidal ideation anyway? It's a gray area. But gray areas are not good areas to play in. Second, Zoe Quinn really is the High Empress of SJW Punishnment Battalions and I'm quite sure that anyone discussing this will be doxxed in short order, as was the case during GamerGate. The White Knights and Tumbrinas are very protective of their Damaged Queen. But I decided to post this after listening to Ethan Van Sciver describe how he himself considered the Suicide Option after being subject to mass attacks by the SJWs, and how friends of him, similarly targeted, often confess to have shared in the same thoughts of suicide being a possible solution. Van Sciver was attacked because he was an open Republican and Trump supporter -- SJWs dug up an artist's sketchbook he did a few years ago, called "My Struggle" -- a wink at "Mein Kampf" -- because the character featured on the cover, which he himself had reinvented, was Sinestro -- which Van Sciver had rescued from the "too childish and silly" pile to make a dangerous and compelling villain. He turned Sinestro into Space Hitler -- thus the "My Struggle" joke. By the way: Space Hitler was not the hero of Van Sciver's Green Lantern books. He was the villain. He did not hold Space Hitler up as someone to emulate, but someone to defeat.
And so he was hounded out of DC comics, where he had worked for years as a top-of-the-foodchain apex artist. He starts talking about his own thoughts about killing himself here. And the confessions of those similarly targeted. He talks about it for about six minutes. Definitely worth your time. I'd like to start asking all the #Cancel Culture activists: What do you think is going to happen when you isolate someone and turn the whole world against them, and make them unemployable? What is your goal, if not to drive them either to suicide or two steps away from suicide? Stop pretending "you had no idea." You had every idea. This was your main idea. Oh by the way: Of course Marvel comics just hired Zoe Quinn to write some SJW book for them. She has no real experience in comics, or really, in any creative endeavor at all. She fundraised for a game she never finished, and she came to "fame," of a sort, for "Depression Quest," a non-game which pretended to be a game, which was really just a Choose Your Own Adventure text about depression and, as it turns out, suicidal thoughts. Her only previous experience in comics came when DC Comics' super-SJW editor of the Vertigo line hired her, for no apparent reason other than her SJW Twitter cache, to write a nonsensical Grrl Power Fantasy title. That title was cancelled for low sales and did not, I think, result in a completed story. But of course, based on that track record, Marvel Comics had to scoop this Hot Property up. Gravedancers Union: Dataracer rounded up some tweets from Zoe Quinn's fans, celebrating her taking of the Ultimate Scalp. Driving a Man to Suicide Achievement -- Unlocked. | Recent Comments
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