>>but she wasn't an innocent maiden who did nothing werong and just wanted to be left alone.
Nor was I claiming she was. But I have to call a bit of BS on the whole "She needed to be struck down for her plagiarism!" thing. Not because she wasn't plagiarizing, which she clearly, obviously, blatantly was, but I call BS that it was the real reason that people declared Internet War on her.
Calling her out on plagiarism as if it was a strong moral imperative to defend badly-done quotes of Buffy and so on seems on all counts to have just been to give those attacking her an air of righteousness. "We're trying to bring attention to the transgressions of a plagiarist!" sounds a lot more noble than "We hate her because of her shitty fanfics!" And it's almost certainly a better salve on the conscience of anyone that thinks they went too far.
That Cassandra Claire was arrogant, untalented, unintelligent, confrontational, and yes, a plagiarist, is not in question. That does not, however, mean that the people going after her were noble, upright, conscientious individuals just doing what had to be done to right wrongs and triumph over evil. That she lied doesn't mean they were truthful, that she was confrontational did not mean that they were peaceful, and that she was petty did not mean that they were elevated.
(I also find it rather ironic that a large number of the people involved in this are outraged that America would ever dare to be less than superhumanly moral in the war on terror, but consider plagiarism in fanfic to be a fitting reason for the gloves to come off and numerous immoral actions to be justified.)
In short, it's quite possible for someone to be a bad writer/fan/person and still unfairly persecute them.
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Nor was I claiming she was. But I have to call a bit of BS on the whole "She needed to be struck down for her plagiarism!" thing. Not because she wasn't plagiarizing, which she clearly, obviously, blatantly was, but I call BS that it was the real reason that people declared Internet War on her.
Calling her out on plagiarism as if it was a strong moral imperative to defend badly-done quotes of Buffy and so on seems on all counts to have just been to give those attacking her an air of righteousness. "We're trying to bring attention to the transgressions of a plagiarist!" sounds a lot more noble than "We hate her because of her shitty fanfics!" And it's almost certainly a better salve on the conscience of anyone that thinks they went too far.
That Cassandra Claire was arrogant, untalented, unintelligent, confrontational, and yes, a plagiarist, is not in question. That does not, however, mean that the people going after her were noble, upright, conscientious individuals just doing what had to be done to right wrongs and triumph over evil. That she lied doesn't mean they were truthful, that she was confrontational did not mean that they were peaceful, and that she was petty did not mean that they were elevated.
(I also find it rather ironic that a large number of the people involved in this are outraged that America would ever dare to be less than superhumanly moral in the war on terror, but consider plagiarism in fanfic to be a fitting reason for the gloves to come off and numerous immoral actions to be justified.)
In short, it's quite possible for someone to be a bad writer/fan/person and still unfairly persecute them.