This is what an ignorant jackass looks like

[laceblade]

Okay, so it appears as though Something Awful has deleted the offensive post* made by a Wiscon attendee at her request. Indeed, she is so sorry.

So here is my question. I am assuming that people are going to want to discuss what happened. People should discuss what happened, and IMO, how it can be prevented next time.

I still have the window open on my laptop with the original post. Should I post the text in a public post so that it might be accessible to the interwebs once more? If so, where would be most appropriate: my personal blog, or the Wiscon blog? Is it offensive to re-post the material, or is it more offensive for the perpetrator to hurt people so egregiously and then do a hand-wave because she "did not even begin to consider how much harm it would do to people"?

I'd rather not re-post the pictures in my blog, and I'm not even sure that I could. If the post was deleted, I don't think that I can save them, even if they're still on a web browser window that's been open for hours.



*In case you missed it, someone who attended Wiscon spent her time snapping photographs of people without their permission, removing their faces from pictures, and uploading them to the Something Awful forums with some of the most hateful and ignorant commentary I have ever seen in my life. She attended panels such as "Fat is Not the Enemy," took pictures of people whom she considered to be fat, and then hatefully mocked them for the rest of the world to see, often posting people's names with the pictures. I felt physically ill reading the post, and was nearly in tears by the end of it.

I am disgusted and ashamed that this girl attends my University, and presumably lives in this city. I hope for her sake that our paths never cross. Verily, words would be exchanged.
(Thank God for Facebook, so I know what she looks like, am I right?)


ETA: Read the comments for a link to the first half of the original post. Also, the threads of that post on the SASS forums contain lots more pictures (did people find flickr pools?). People seem to be posting lots of just random photos from Wiscon, including a cute picture of littlebutfierce, raanve, and someone I don't recognize. NORMALITY, IT TRANSLATES TO LOLS. I guess I'm just really out of touch with Internet humor. I don't get it.

ETA2: One of the Con-Chairs has posted to the Wiscon LJ community, asking people to please cease violent threats of any kind. The post is here. Please sit tight, people. The Con-Chairs and ConCommittee are aware of the problem and working on it. Please refrain from posting personal information about the person in question, etc.

Also, the thread on SASS seems to be using pictures from the Wiscon Flickr pool in an ever-increasing number of posts. If you have photos of children on Flickr, please lock them. If you took photos of people without asking for their permission, I would recommend locking those as well, until you obtain it.


EDIT 3: Do not threaten the original poster (that's just stupid). Do not post her personal information (there is more than one person with her name in the world). If you happen across her personal information, I would go with: Do not contact her.

EDIT 4: If you want to disagree with my friends and I in the comments, that's fine. But if your comments are in any way derogatory, they will be deleted. I am open to discourse, but will not tolerate slurs.

Comments

[general-jinjur.livejournal.com]

can you zip the images and email them to deepforestowl at gmail dot com?

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Possibly. I'm not sure how to zip things, but I could just attach them all (although there are like, 17 pictures, so maybe not).

Either way, it'll have to wait until I get home from work tonight (after 6ish).

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

I thought Debbie was the info collector? I know that concom people have been on this for a couple of days now.

[general-jinjur.livejournal.com]

yeah, they should go to her as well.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

I don't know who Debbie is. deepforestowl has a locked entry talking about what to do - can't the concom make a post about this, telling people what they might do? Who to send information to, how those in the pictures might respond, etc.?

I feel really disconnected from knowing what the concom is doing, aside from you saying that they're on it (which is good, obviously, but other people are talking about taking their own course of action, and if something's going to be done at all, it seems like coordination would benefit us all).

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Debbie is probably Debbie N.: kith at spicejar dot org (from her profile, I'm not giving out private email.)

The concom probably just got back home this morning if then. I'd expect to see some sort of more organized response in the next couple days.

To zip something on a PC, put them all in their own folder, right click on it, and there should be an option to automatically zip the whole folder.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and thank you!

Debbie

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Yeah, AKA wild_irises too.