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

[bipagan.livejournal.com]

Please do. She is breaking the rules of conduct and I believe should be removed from her grad program. Who do we contact about this?

She got so many things wrong in her post. 1) Moondancer is a Native American. 2) The photo of her husband in the soy panel, he's not a vegetarian. He eats meat all the damn time. He knows he's "doing it wrong." 3) She puts the smack down on their 9 year old? Seriously? A grad student needs to feel better about herself by trying to harm children? 4) She confuses 1 person for another. 5) I could go on...

Moondancer won't talk about this in her LJ because she will be an ordained minister soon and feels she should take the high road. I have no such compulsion. I'm not a pacifist. Where would be the best place to post her personal information? Attacking children, posting photos, oh no.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

I'll direct you to heyfoureyes's comment higher up in this thread:

I would suggest NOT to take a course of action. Do not contact her or her employers unless you are doing so in an official capacity (ie. ConComm member) or are actually filing a charge against her (i.e, for publishing photos of yourself/your children without permission). To contact her otherwise, may constitute legal harrassment.

She does make a ton of mistakes, including misquoting people. But if I were you, I would direct your e-mails to people on the Con-com for now, and ask what we can do to help. Protecting Wiscon's image is of vital importance, and so is everybody's safety. We post her information (whether it's already on the Internet or not), and she can just as easily post ours, and make the situation a lot more dangerous and involved than it already is.

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

Her foul mouthed attack on Moondancer's son was the point where I started to think she was actually crazy.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I will, definitely. I'm conflicted on what to do about her grad program. I would think the Dean might be a good person to go to first. I'm uncertain about the ethics involved here - not that she paied an attention to ethics.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

The concom (and heyfoureyes) had good points in that for now, we should let the concom figure out what to do. Contacting her bosses or whatever might be considered harassment, and I would just hate for one of us to get in hot water (I don't think we would, but whatever).

I think we should wait for guidance from the concom, which is hopefully coming soon?!?!