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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 6183095" data-attributes="member: 73683">A lot of the appeal of PA is the genuineness of the guys running it. There is no middle man, there is no one monitoring what they say (except for Khoo, and he doesn't appear to do much about it). They certainly have the resources to put a PR team together, but they choose not to because that would cost them a lot of the credibility as critical eyes on the industry that they've spent more than a decade building up.Now you're just crossing wires. There are people who were offended by the original comic and chose to lash out. Those people deserve to have their views dismissed, because it is not okay to respond that way. There is some merit to the idea that the PA guys were less sensitive than they ought to have been when rape victims started to chime in, but I firmly believe that the mocking reaction they had was warranted given how they were personally treated. At that point, a lot of people who were never the target of any mockery or derision to begin with started to act like they were the target of mockery and derision.So I'm not quite sure what your argument is. I don't think PA's reaction was anywhere near as insensitive as people make it out to be, and I think that what insensitivity was displayed is easily chalked up to the result of deliberate provocation (which included, but was not limited to, threats to their families). There's really nothing noteworthy to get up in arms about, there. Someone was deliberately provoked to hell and back, and he responded with mockery of the people who provoked him.</blockquote>

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