I haven't been keeping up with this thread, so I'm sure it's already been posted, but this:
Actively makes me FURIOUS. I've been dealing with suicidal thoughts and depression my entire life alongside borderline personality disorder. Those who actually have experience dealing with people like that know that yeah, there's going to be times where you're a MASSIVE asshole. And yeah, that includes bigotry and other shit that you might not actually believe in an attempt to push people away or get attention or whatever.
These people will spout off about empathy and understanding and all that other bullshit, but the second they actually have to do the most minuscule amount of work that is interacting with a truly mentally disturbed person, they turn tail and try to fucking "cancel" them. Then once it's too late, they talk all these platitudes and hollow promises to do better when THEY CONTRIBUTED TO THAT CULTURE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Looking in on Era as an outsider, I saw them as aggressive but ultimately well-meaning. I've gotten frustrated with their methods, but I was never once angry at them. That has changed. This selective empathy is far more rage-inducing than the jokers on twitter and hate sites shitting on everyone. At least I know where they stand and have already acknowledged that they're awful people, something they probably will tell you themselves. But I expect this supposed "progressive" space to be so much better, not just the opposite extreme.
You fuckers over at Era need a trigger warning for your entire goddamn forum. Not for your shitty "Oh, I'm super privileged but got slightly offended at someone being ignorant over modern terminology" posters, but the people with ACTUAL mental illness visiting the place.
And the people that are supposedly "regretting" their past words. Let me ask you this. Would you extend the same support you're now retroactively extending to Etika for a Trump voter? What about a clearly mentally ill famous person like Kanye? Because I've seen enough of you wishing death on people like that that I can't see it. I remember that thread about the GOP lawmaker that killed himself and people were fucking CELEBRATING.
If you're an Era user and everything I said above doesn't apply to you, I really recommend you stop posting there. It is contributing to a culture where tragedies like this WILL happen again. To use some of their own terminology, you're not gonna be on "the right side of history" if you remain there.