It wasn't spontaneous. The person in question was saying that heterosexual, cisgender, and neurotypical people shouldn't be allowed to participate in certain fandoms. Everyone who disagreed (most of whom were LGBT+ people with mental disorders, funnily enough) merely pointed out that hating entire groups of people for reasons outside of their control and saying they don't deserve to enjoy certain things aren't very nice things to do, no matter who's doing them.
And yet this 'merely pointing out' caused the community to 'tear itself apart' and drive people out :-(
Seriously, when somebody says (or is interpreted by third parties as saying) something as impotent as "I don't want anyone who doesn't share my peculiarities in my gang!", the correct response is not a witch-hunt to stamp out the deadly poison of badthink. This does not improve matters — as demonstrated.
There was a witch hunt, all right, but neither we nor the original poster started it. It was a third party who'd bullied and harassed other fans on different platforms in the past, I believe.
The person who deleted their blog was a mutual of mine who got a lot of hateful messages accusing them of promoting genocide and the like after they said that no one should be excluded from a fandom, basically.
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Seriously, when somebody says (or is interpreted by third parties as saying) something as impotent as "I don't want anyone who doesn't share my peculiarities in my gang!", the correct response is not a witch-hunt to stamp out the deadly poison of badthink. This does not improve matters — as demonstrated.
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The person who deleted their blog was a mutual of mine who got a lot of hateful messages accusing them of promoting genocide and the like after they said that no one should be excluded from a fandom, basically.