Wyrdness said:
Yes and go read the link, some of the statements are as recent as a few months ago, child abuse is a severe crime probably the most severe. Defending it is not acceptable, one of her tweets flat out says don't hate on pedophiles and that tweet was made this past december. People wouldn't stand for anyone defending racist or sexist bahaviour, if this was a man I have a feeling no one would back him at all over it. |
Even so, I don't believe that this opinion is grounds for firing. Like I said, she did not participate in child abuse and she did not condone child abuse. She made statements about the sexual agency of people under 18 (not entirely objectionable), the legal status of cartoon depictions of naked children, and how the focus of law enforcement should be on the ones creating child porn and not the ones in possession of it. None of those opinions are particularly harmful or even all that radical and they certainly are not condoning child abuse.
I don't disagree that there is a double standard in regards to pedophila, and I don't even really disagree that she shouldn't have been saying these things one of the public faces of Nintendo, just that this whole idea was blown up and stretched to make it seem like something it never really was.
@Aura: When I say "this pedophilia nonsense is irrelevant", I essentially meant that it should have been irrelevant, or at least a very minor part of the discussion to highlight her lack of professionalism, not to state that she was a danger to children and an abominable human being.
