Sis.... not wanna rain on your parade but people bullied off john green because of his ganging up with writers and their fans on a teen that spoke about how he was very inappropriate with his teenage fans like talking about sex....
Also the dude has always been a creep like covering up the dudes on his record label full of sexual predators
Okay, first: I'm not your 'sis', don't try to condescend to me and don't assume that gendered forms of address are cool with everyone, especially if you don't know them. You don't know me.
Second: The specific, targeted, harassment John Green had to put up with is not how you deal with a potential predator, as you're trying to label him. If you think he's being inappropriate with minors you report it and let staff deal with it. You don't sexually harass him 'back'.
Third: Disputing baseless accusations of a serious crime, and being defended by his fans and fellow writers does not constitute 'ganging up' on someone. He disputed the post, bluntly, and actually encouraged people against attacking the original poster.
Fourth: Talking about sex and being sexual are two different things. Teens have sex. Denying that doesn't make it untrue and refusing to talk about it, frankly, can make it a dangerous thing for them to participate in as they are wont to do regardless. There are lines of course but I've been on Tumblr since 2012, I was there for the height of his activity and I don't recall him ever crossing that line with any of his fans. Perhaps it happened behind the scenes, but unless you have concrete evidence of him being actually inappropriate with a fan, I'm going to imagine your accusations are baseless.
He's a YA author, he writes about young adults/teens, you don't have to be comfortable with it but its not inherently predatory for him to write about things that teens actually do. And, as far as I can recall, it has been a very long time since I've read a John Green book, none of said scenes were even particularly explicit. There are T rated fics on Ao3 that are more or equally explicit.
Finally: 'Covering up the dudes on his record label full of sexual predators', DFTBA Records was co-founded by Hank Green, not John, and both of them publicly spoke out against the artists involved. 'On a professional note, we continue to have a zero tolerance policy for abusive behavior by artists whose work is distributed by DFTBA Records' is a quote directly from John. Those involved were dropped from the label.
Let me be clear: I am anti harassment. Full stop. No 'but' or 'unless' or 'what if'. Its a childish, selfish, behavior that solves nothing. And allowing for the possibility of 'but' or 'unless' or 'what if' means that those who participate only need to imagine up a 'good enough' reason to encourage it, and they don't care if its true or not.
I'm going to assume you're young, because I frankly don't want to imagine an actual fully grown adult encouraging this type of behavior. I don't imagine that you'll actually care to read what all I've said here, that's fine. I wish you would and that you'd actually consider that not everything is black and white and that, sometimes people lie because they want to feel vindicated in their dislike of someone. I'm not surprised this type of attitude is fairly common among younger people these days but it is severely disappointing seeing so many fall into it. Especially knowing how damaging it can/will be to them as they grow and start to participate in society more.
Like I said, I doubt you'll actually read all of this, and I'm not going to respond to any more messages you might send because I'm in the habit of ignoring bad-faith arguments like this. My responding is more so I can re-state my stance on this whole thing and encourage anyone who might disagree with me, on the stance of 'Don't harass people. Period.' to unfollow and block me, because they're not welcome on my account.
So. As I said, if you disagree with me on this stance: kindly unfollow me and also hit that block button! I hope you grow up to be a better person than you are now!
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