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Then it's not brigading and it's not targeting.
So posting their picture on the sidebar (which makes it very easy to find out who they are) for the entire subreddit to see and mock isn't targeting people?
The following is an excerpt from http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/harassment
harassment n:
the act of systematic and/or continued unwanted and annoying actions of one party or a group, including threats and demands. The purposes may vary, including racial prejudice, personal malice, an attempt to force someone to quit a job or grant sexual favors, apply illegal pressure to collect a bill, or merely gain sadistic pleasure from making someone fearful or anxious.
What FPH did bordered on litigable.
It's absolutely a valid reason. A hate group does not need to be given a platform to hate from. And reddit would not give you that platform.
It was not a "containment" it was allowing the ideas to propagate and it allowed people to gang up on individual members, sponsored by the moderators.
Information being public does not give you free game to harass someone over it. Even if you don't go directly to them to harass them, it is still harassment.
Sorry I'm not taking part of your pity party. You were part of a literal hate group. People don't support that. And your actions do have consequences. Not that you give a shit about anyone besides yourself.
Comment by kre8rix at 07/07/2015 at 02:47 UTC
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Pity party? Hardly...I'm good. It's also pretty interesting that you seem to know so much about me already and how I don't 'give a shit about anyone besides myself." If we're going with broad-sweeping generalizations, than am I to assume that you love everyone regardless of anything? Because that's obviously bullshit. Me saying you care about everyone around you is just as naive and uneducated as you asuming the opposite about me. You know nothing about me, except of my disgust with Fat people. In all Fairness, you may know a bit more if you dug in to my post history a bit, but nothing that I don't want you to know so I'm not too worried about it. You're wrong in your assumption, but if it makes you feel better, by all means...keep thinking that. as with everything else, the opinions of people I dont know have no effect on my actual life.
To address your earlier attempt to 'educate me' with the dictionary definition let's get hypothetical here.
I walk past a store. in said storefront, there is a picture of a plus-sized "model". I take a picture of this picture, and text it to a bunch of my friends to share in my laughter that this 'person' could be considered attractive. everyone laughs...life goes on.
Now one of those people, makes that picture their phone background, but now has added 'haha fatty' or something else equally unoriginal captioned to the picture, so they can laugh everytime their phone wakes up. Now, lets say the 'model' from the original picture walks past in a public space, and sees that this other person has the picture with 'haha fatty' captioned on it. She gets pissed off and demands that this other person remove that picture from their phone immediately, to whch they reply "go fuck yourself, go on a diet."
Just because you come across it, doesn't mean you were targeted. Just because you were offended doesn't make it harrassment. i can yell "go fuck yourself you vapid cunt" about anyone I work with. It's not harassment if I don't do it to them, or in front of them. you don't get to change the definition to suit your cause.
You don't get to go looking to get offended and then claim harrassment because you weren't able to make others capitulate to your whining.
You chasing people with opposing viewpoints around on the internet demading that you remove publicly available pictures is not harrassment. Even if we laugh at you when you ask.
You may not like it. You may HATE it...but it still broke no rules or laws. it is interesting that your hate of the FPH is somehow more morally justified, and therefore somehow better.
Fun how opinions on what is "right" can differ, isn't it?
Fortunately for us all, differing opinions aren't illegal yet.