"On this Special Edition of the Drive Thru, Jim responds!"
By "responds," it means responding to
the sexual abuse allegations against Jim Cornette and his wife, Stacey. He basically rants for an hour about the whole thing in the above video, and lays out what are, to me at least, convincing reasons as to why it is not true.
If Jim Cornette is full of shit and actually did the things he's being accused of doing, then he's a very good actor via his denial of it here. And if it's true, which I doubted before and definitely doubt now, then he can simply fuck off forever. If more actual evidence comes out later that further verifies the allegations, then, once again, fuck Jim Cornette forever. But based on what I've seen and heard so far, it's all horseshit. (EDIT) And by that, I mean the aspect of it where he's accused of abusing power and wrecking careers. If that part is true, then to hell with Cornette. On the other hand, I could not care less if the "has freaky, swinging sex" part of it is true, absent the other stuff. Jim himself in the above embedded video hinted that that part of it is probably at least partly true. What he and his wife do in private, and with whom, is none of my concern, as long as it is consensual between all parties involved, and they're not doing it abusively and in conjunction with their business relationships with other people. (/EDIT)
If, on the other hand, Jim Cornette did
not do what he has been accused of doing, then this is either just another example of the so-called "good guys" crossing the line yet again (as I've
discussed before), or it is another example of a bunch of Internet asshats jumping on and trying to subvert yet another
otherwise ostensibly "good" thing[1].
Sexual harassment sucks and should be stamped out, and those who engage in it indeed need to be outed and ostracized, but it's almost (for a loose value of "almost") as bad to accuse someone else of it when they
didn't do it as it is to have done it in the first place. And also, if the accusations against Cornette are bullshit, which seems to be the case, then who is to say that any of the other accusations are legitimate, either? That's the danger of false accusations: it makes the potentially true ones less likely to be taken seriously. Hell, for that matter, when are there going to start being consequences against those who make false accusations, for whatever reasons?
[1] - It's sort of like Irredeemably Toxic Shithole, aka GamerGate, except in that case, the whole "actually it's about ethics in video game journalism" movement was a campaign to try to destroy a single woman from the get go, and then it went on to become a campaign to destroy as many women in the games/game journalism industry as possible, all in the name of stamping out "corruption." I.e. a few (possible) outliers who (maybe) actually cared about the whole "anti-corruption" bit, with the rest of them being 8chan incel types who merely wanted yet another excuse to dox and harass and threaten women.
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