I don't disagree with what you are saying for the most part Bryan. Ethan Ralph has a long laundry list of self inflicted problems. One way to describe him is calling him a renegade, or maybe even a degenerate. He is a man screaming in to a microphone for a living, and has devolved from being a political columnist, activist, and commentator to whatever he is today. I don't even know what to call it. But it's certainly some kind of soap opera, reality show, trashfire.
But let's be real. This isn't a general discussion about him. Let's just say I am not that personally invested in what he does, and doesn't do. I do not have any reason to be in a resentful angry mood against him constantly. The few times I have had anything to do with him personally he have been very respectful and kind to me. Point being that I don't have a strong bias for or against him. And I see no reason to pretend otherwise to please people.
What I am trying to address is something fairly obvious. Whitewashing what Cog did is really stupid. Cog has mad a fool of himself and done something very inappropriate. No amount of deep analysis, or hog wrestling pictures and memes will change that fact. I don't want to repeat all the arguments why almost everything cog did was infinitely stupid because it has been said so many times.