Interesting
Huh. The dude who writes Waspsi Square (a webcomic I've read for about a decade which I'm not linking on purpose) has been my FB friend for a few years now. He's actually the one who friended me. And up until now he's seemed like a pretty rational fella.
But it seems he's unfriended me due to my comment on a post he made about a zero policy case where a senior in high school (which the article mentioned is an eagle scout and a church goer, as if that matters in any way) forgot he had his shotgun in the car that he had been using over the weekend and drove onto school grounds with it. When he noticed it, he called his mom to ask her to come get it instead of driving home because he didn't want to take the hit for being tardy. His call was overheard, the school administration found the gun, called the cops, and he's being charged with a felony (that there's no way he'll be convicted for).
His argument was the zero tolerance policies are stupid and lazy and he shouldn't have gotten in trouble because he was trying to fix his mistake.
I pointed out that it was pretty dumb for him to just stay on campus with it and that they couldn't really make an exception in his case because what happens when the next kid claims it was an accident but he really meant to kill people? This isn't a case where a kid brought a squirt gun to school, he brought a real firearm (and the fact that the article mentions that he did his senior project on gun safety is rather ironic, imo). I asked if he would be as passionate if the gun had been found before he had a chance to make the phone call. He said that, in that case, he would say the kid should hang.
So I pointed out that it makes no sense to be for zero tolerance in one case, but not another--especially when it's a before and after scenario of the same case. And then I was defriended so I couldn't see it anymore. All the while he was capslocking the hell out of me and saying I "sounded dense". Rude.
Guess I won't be reading his comic anymore. Which is kind of a shame since I've been reading it for so long, but really, it's one that I just read out of habit anymore, anyway. He's also kind of struck me as kind of hypocritical, anyhow, as he has a lot of stuff on his FB about body positivity and feminism and objectification of women and how women are beautiful at any size, but all of his characters have large boobs and small waists and the art he draws to sell are all characters in very skimpy outfits. And he's a brony. So there's that.
Still. Weird.
But it seems he's unfriended me due to my comment on a post he made about a zero policy case where a senior in high school (which the article mentioned is an eagle scout and a church goer, as if that matters in any way) forgot he had his shotgun in the car that he had been using over the weekend and drove onto school grounds with it. When he noticed it, he called his mom to ask her to come get it instead of driving home because he didn't want to take the hit for being tardy. His call was overheard, the school administration found the gun, called the cops, and he's being charged with a felony (that there's no way he'll be convicted for).
His argument was the zero tolerance policies are stupid and lazy and he shouldn't have gotten in trouble because he was trying to fix his mistake.
I pointed out that it was pretty dumb for him to just stay on campus with it and that they couldn't really make an exception in his case because what happens when the next kid claims it was an accident but he really meant to kill people? This isn't a case where a kid brought a squirt gun to school, he brought a real firearm (and the fact that the article mentions that he did his senior project on gun safety is rather ironic, imo). I asked if he would be as passionate if the gun had been found before he had a chance to make the phone call. He said that, in that case, he would say the kid should hang.
So I pointed out that it makes no sense to be for zero tolerance in one case, but not another--especially when it's a before and after scenario of the same case. And then I was defriended so I couldn't see it anymore. All the while he was capslocking the hell out of me and saying I "sounded dense". Rude.
Guess I won't be reading his comic anymore. Which is kind of a shame since I've been reading it for so long, but really, it's one that I just read out of habit anymore, anyway. He's also kind of struck me as kind of hypocritical, anyhow, as he has a lot of stuff on his FB about body positivity and feminism and objectification of women and how women are beautiful at any size, but all of his characters have large boobs and small waists and the art he draws to sell are all characters in very skimpy outfits. And he's a brony. So there's that.
Still. Weird.