On the sickness of our community

A problem with Kathy Sierra's post is that it persists with scapegoating Andrew "weev" Auernheimer without providing any primary evidence whatsoever. Indeed along the same narrative we have quite a few articles (e.g. in the New York Times) calling him basically anything and everything on account of the media zeitgeist having been on his back since the non-hack that made a public fool out of Apple and AT&T.

To contrast we have this <URL:https://weev.livejournal.com/409913.html> straight from the horse's mouth. Yet no-one seems to care that the whipping-boy du jour has anything to say for himself, like a medieval witch trial where the accused's complaint is regarded only as further evidence against them. Instead there are claims of sociopathy to seemingly pre-empt anything he might have to say: "he's clearly just manipulating you! you're an useful fool, a willing sockpuppet!"; and appeals to grave subjective terror for which no criminal investigation has occurred, no arrests have been made, no charges pressed, and certainly no convictions passed. Certainly if the police were systematically incapable and/or in cahoots with "trolls"... but this outcome also results when there's no crime at all, such as when it is merely an obsession by a prominent blogger.

This certainly seems like an instance of the bizarre American victim-venerating culture which, perversely enough, genuinely victimizes those whom the prominent victim-roles wish to destroy. These are hit-pieces and nothing more.