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Piasladic

(1,163 posts)
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 04:09 PM Feb 2022

It's all so horrible

I said a while ago that sometimes, I hated people https://www.democraticunderground.com/113756276

It felt good to vent. A Zoom bomber. Then, they caught the guy: 20 year-old student, from an even more a podunk place... WM republican. So, I reported him last week.

Absolutely nothing with my incident report over a week ago.

BUT>>>. Two days later, one of the best members of my group was reported for making a stink about it.

Last week, she had a "hearing" and was told she could not longer be a member. I want to scream and make a mess, but I need the job. Why was the club member punished? It's so ugly, I can't even say half of it.

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It's all so horrible (Original Post) Piasladic Feb 2022 OP
Can't find your OP Jilly_in_VA Feb 2022 #1
Try this link... IngridsLittleAngel Feb 2022 #3
sorry... I think I fixed it. Piasladic Feb 2022 #5
zoom bomber? samir.g Feb 2022 #2
troll in a Zoom call Celerity Feb 2022 #7
I get you... IngridsLittleAngel Feb 2022 #4
I feel your frustration! Behind the Aegis Feb 2022 #6
 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
4. I get you...
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 04:24 PM
Feb 2022

Long story for me, and not one I want to share publicly, but, I get it on watching the bad guys get away with it, while someone who reports or complains get punished. I've seen it, I've lived it, it's absolutely unfair. I don't know how the hell we got to this point, but, so often anymore it feels like the system exists to protect the bad guys, and exists to punish the people hurt by them.



Though, as always, vent away. Venting does feel good, and some of us are indeed listening.

Behind the Aegis

(54,926 posts)
6. I feel your frustration!
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 04:31 PM
Feb 2022

When a minority, especially an unpopular one, gets all "uppity" and refuses to "play nicely while be bullied", they are the ones who get the shaft. It is victim blaming/shaming, plain and simple. We dare to speak out, and WE are punished. We call out homophobia, transphobia, anti-Semitism, racism, and WE are the "trouble-makers"! We complain how we are treated and WE are punished for making the bully/bigot "feel bad"!

Hang in there!! Vent away!

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