Stephen Churay wrote: Jabari, I'm not disagreeing with you about Meyer.

Yes you are.

Stephen Churay wrote: I simply wanted to be fair and give his statements a little context,-

A context that he “doesn’t really mean it”, which is B.S.

Stephen Churay wrote: -and even after that, I called what he did repugnant.

But still try to excuse it as joking and just playing a character.

StephenChuray wrote: I mentioned him because he is the only one I can factually prove called the publisher.

That is no different than tweeting or FB messaging someone, which is what happened in the Sitterson situation. People contacted a publisher and told them what a person they were in business with had said publicly, and the publisher decided that the words were offensive enough for them to stop doing business with that person.  That’s all. Dunn himself said he wasn’t “threatened”by Waid. There was nothing illegal in either situation. You can believe otherwise if you want, but I really wouldn’t recommend holding your breath waiting for some FTC charges against Mark Waid.

True Story: Years ago there was a man named Rick Olney (now deceased), a failed publisher and comicon organizer, who was known for cheating dozens of artists and writers out of thousands of dollars. It finally came to a head when many comics pros, principally Gail Simone, as well as Tony Isabella and Chuck Dixon, made it a point to inform as many people as possible of his misdeeds so that he couldn’t cheat others. At one point Olney claimed to be working with Ben Dunn, after which I contacted Dunn on Deviant Art to warnhim of Olney’s history, which Dunn thanked me for and told me he would take that into consideration. Olney also made lots of threats of suing people for “libel”and other crimes against him, but that never came to anything.

Stephen Churay wrote: Please, please inform me further,but I could find no harassment of him until he made stupid comments about 9/11on Twitter.

The point is that people, including Meyer, took Sitterson’s own words and informed the publisher he was working for about it, in the hopes that the publisher would drop him. Which they eventually did.  And now others have taken Meyers own words and informed the publisher he was going to work with about it, and that publisher dropped him. Thus, Meyer's complaints are hypocritical.

Stephen Churay wrote: A man's opinions and beliefs arehis own but he was writing a G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero comic. That's never going to go well.

Yes, you can believe and say what they want. And when yourwork, whatever it is, depends on support from the public, you need to acceptthat, like it or not, sometimes the public may choose not to support your work based on what you say. 

Now I'm done with this topic.