Nintendo fires treehouse member Alison Rapp

[wombat123]

Wyrdness said:

Volterra_90 said:

Yeah, I've seen some of her views, and they're definitely controversial. But nothing justifies online harassment. Nintendo should have defended her in public when she started to being harassed. The reasons why she was fired could be totally unrelated, we don't know, but, still, that's not the question. 

World doesn't work that way, defending her would be interpreted by the mainstream media as defending her stance, she herself didn't help matters as she openly engaged and taunted people herself. If you champion controversial views like pedophilia prepare to fight your own battles in regards to them.

Exactly. People nowadays keep on forgetting that there are consequences for your actions.  If you want to push a controversial opinion, you better damn well make sure that you either have ironclad job security or are well-off enough that you don't have to work.  From what I've seen, the people defending Rapp seem to be following some kind of odd narrative about harrassment when from what I've seen, she was giving as good as she was receiving.  And honestly, I have a feeling if this person were named Andrew Rapp, a lot of the people complaining about this probably wouldn't give a damn.