That was the hardest ban for me...to this day I still don't understand the change in him. It was totally out of left field....and talking to him in PM's was really surreal, it was like I was talking to a "stepford person".
I hear ya. And when I first heard about the banning, I was rattled. I mean, I kind of expected it, sooner or later, considering how Craig had been behaving...but I was hit hard by it too. Craig was our teammate. And for all of my shortcomings during my time as a red shirt, you know I took team loyalty to heart. It was weird to see him go like that. But in the past month or so...its started to make sense to me. I have seen so many people, be it friends, colleagues, and in one sad case a family member, transform from people I thought were decent and respectable into racist, misogynistic, homophobic bigots, seemingly overnight.
Sadly, I have accepted that this was never a transformation. Its who they were, the whole damn time I knew them. That hatred was always in their heart. But they hid it, because society demanded such. Then on November 8th, 2016, the bigots, misogynists, and homophobes pulled a coup, took over our country, and the need to hide their true colors evaporated. They were empowered and they knew it. So they stopped pretending and showed exactly who they are.
Its what happened with Craig. The only difference is he didn't wait until the election to feel empowered. Trump's mere emergence was enough to cause him to shed his mask and show what he really was.
I have to second this nom, I'd also like to throw Taarna into the mix.
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