Mikaya Raines, founder of the Save A Fox animal rescue, was harassed into suicide by a toxic snark subreddit.
Yes, is the Finnegan Fox YouTube channel.
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You're shitting me...
What the fuck did plebbit niggerfaggots had against foxes?
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Basically... She offed herself because jealous cunts said she was hoarding foxes? Wtf
I know some women are frail but actually following through the "go kill yourself" is definitely peak autism, my heart goes out to the husband and poor finnigan
As I said in my comment, although no one can cause someone to kill themselves, exactly, it is fair bit different when existing mental issues are involved. She was autistic, BPD, and had issues with depression, according to the video. The autism alone makes someone a ton more vulnerable to this shit.
It's terrible, and it's especially monstrous if they knew she was autistic. Which I assume they did, since it was apparently her friends that engaged in this.
Absolutely fucked up.
I wonder if we're going to see an exploration of the "eggshell skull" legal principle here, but with a harassment / cyberbullying angle instead. That would be interesting.
For those not in the know, "eggshell skull" refers to one being responsible for the extra damage one inflicts on a victim through battery because of pre-existing conditions, even if those conditions are unknown to the parties. If you deliberately punch someone to cause injury or indignity (not in self-defense), in most cases they won't die and you'd be guilty of simple battery. However, strike someone who has a defect or unexpected weakness in their skull such that their head caves in and they die, then you are guilty of manslaughter.
The idea is the offender knowingly engaged in a course of action that caused harm and broke the law. Just because the magnitude of the harm was unexpected to the offender does not mean they are not responsible for the outcome, since they willfully and deliberately caused illicit harm in the first place.
This victim may have been predisposed to suggestions of suicide or to the negative effects of harassment because of her mental status. If that played a role in her killing herself, some Redditors may be complicit from a legal standpoint. Reddit may be complicit.
Well we better hope that doesn't happen, or else the entire right wing is going to get sued into the ground.
With "friends" like this.. who needs enemies?
I kind of get it. Not the suicide part obviously, but imagine you've focused your entire life around trying to help some animals. But you've had some that died (possibly after a protracted battle), which were each emotional in their own rights. Now here's a sizable group of people insisting that you killed those animals. That all the actions you'd been taking for many years of your life, with the best of intentions were actively harmful to the ones you were trying to protect. If they can get that idea to take root, it's the kind of thing that would make anyone question everything they'd done up to that point.
Then you stack it with existing mental issues and it's probably going to turn real bad.
I don't know, I just found out about it from X. The subreddit in question has gone private, of course, because of course they would.