Highlighting this one for the newcomers.
There's an important lesson in here: That the larger context of this is bigger than Quinn herself.
Alec did, after all, have more than his share of skeletons in his closet as well. His issues were, as they say, something of a known commodity, as evidenced by the huge number of people in his circle of friends willing to go on about how awful he always was. That sort of shit happens a lot in these groups, as we learned from Randi Harper, who revealed that several of them were keeping these massive logbooks on one another so they were fully prepared in the event someone got excommunicated for wrongthink.
In this particular case, evidence suggests Alec had problems with allegations long before Quinn voiced her little MeToo analogue. She just took advantage of what was there. And that's an important distinction to make, honestly. Quinn is absolutely a piece of shit. The huge number of harassment campaigns she's known to have engaged in, the fucking ridiculous amount of times she's done the exact shit she's complained about to other people, the way she's used (and will continue to use) people, and fuck them over for her own amusement are all things that deserve derision and ridicule. But while one can certainly argue that she has culpability in this case, one cannot make the argument that Quinn herself intentionally killed Alec - all she did was point a finger.
Her supporters, Alec's so-called friends, and Alec's own issues did the rest from there.
Fuck that. Scott's post and all the allegations at best hint that Alec was anti-social and a jerk who hurt women's feelings more than anything. On top of that, Quinn specifically said they had made peace on the issue, but that she just felt pure dread hearing people applaud Alec's work. Feeling bad over someone's success is narcissism, pure and simple. She wanted to punch him down a peg while pretending she really cared about his well-being.
If you don't point the finger back at the people who keep this degenerate feels-before-reals culture going as they plow over everyone without a hint of remorse, then it'll keep happening. There are plenty of instances where business partners and friends took this shit private, informed the person acting anti-social that they need to change, put out a press release that someone's taking time off or is simply leaving the project due to personal issues. If you want to press charges, you press charges. The shit Alec was accused of wasn't something that could be proven, as per Scott's own words in the backer update.
These people aren't capable of understanding the ramifications of the allegations, they just care about their own petty skin. If you don't put a foot down and straight up tell these people that they're dealing with human lives with their 4D Social Chess bullshit, then Alec is going to be just a statistic. One
can make the argument that Quinn was trying to do significant harm, and the result was death. Just because you punch someone without meaning to kill them doesn't mean you don't get charged with manslaughter when they hit the concrete. Yes, it's feels before reals to say Quinn's words hurt a person, but that's the rule set they invented and are now refusing to abide by. The feels don't count when they're the ones who hurt them.
But that's just all optimism on my part. We all know she's not going to face any consequences for this. The next person won't be any different. Another person will die because they are dropped from on high, and the feels-crowd will laugh again. But we'll never be allowed to say they cause this shit deliberately because they "totally didn't mean to hurt someone by blowing their personal life wide open, teehee <3."
I guarantee you that when Zoe comes back, she will post something along the lines of "I am so sorry that this happened, I've just been crying the whole time, and anyone who's mad at Alec should be ashamed of themselves! I'm so sorry Alec, I forgive you, please rest in peace" and her followers will call her a fucking saint for that. Scott will eat the brunt of this shit show because he's the only male that anyone can point at, even though he was only doing exactly what the feminist women wanted him to do.
