This stuff is really confusing to follow due to how often the foundation of the arguments changes. I did follow the Alison Rapp incident and find it a frustrating example of how inconsistent the "SJW" or whatever you want to call it, movement can be.
Oh boy, the Alison Rapp incident.
Basically, she is an outspoken feminist on twitter, aggressively so for a Nintendo employee. They don't usually take outspoken developers well, and on top of that she was a PR staffer. It could be argued she was already treading on thin ice, not counting the whole prostitution moonlighting job where she wears Nintendo-themed things and doesn't even bother hiding her tracks from the public or her employee.
But on the other hand, she is actually against censorship of Japanese media to please "SJW" sensibilities or in the name of "localization". She spoke against the removal of the boob slider in Xenoblade X. Before you say it's a hollow attempt to deflect guilt, Nintendo actually has a policy against criticizing their own localization team's work that goes way back. She was out of line to voice that opinion. Better yet, she was so passionate about it she wrote a thesis years back about how censoring manga by applying current day western societal norms is compromising creative freedom and not an ethical distribution model.
That incident was so complex and so fascinating at exposing hypocrisy from so many sides.
On one side you have the gamergate crowd. Usually they co-opt all discussions about how censorship of games and imported media is bad, and SJWs are comfortable with this since they can now smear anyone who wants uncensored games as automatically part of it and the alt-right. But as it turns out, it's a rightwing movement at heart that's invested primarily in furthering their own politics (just as SJWs are in similar aspects).
So you get this ideological political enemy who actually supports that stated goal of creative freedom (in fact the SJWs formerly on this site were really upset by her statements about creative freedom and suggested themselves she should be fired. In fact one of the catalysts behind her firing besides the pictures was a feminist organisation calling for her firing over her thesis). What did GG do?
Why, pretend the Xenoblade X censorship was her doing of course! -- even though the culpits are well known, bragging about it even on podcasts and social media. It's primarily the Treehouse editors and they carried on doing the exact same sort of thing with Fire Emblem Fates, Tokyo Mirage Sessions and The Legend of Zelda A Link Between Worlds, among others). That's the one incident that proved it's not the "weeb justice" movement, just using them.
Now you might argue she had a ticking bomb skeleton closet anyways, but ... those pictures didn't go viral spontaneously.
Alison Rapp was foolish for mixing politics with her dream job, and that fucking moonlighting job you can't make up.
This doesn't mean what happened to her, over being more principled than either sides of the internet mob, wasn't unfortunate. Disgusting if we count how each side would take part of the story to try to score points against the other side after taking part in it.
