\[Sorry if anything is hard to understand. I am a native English speaker. Bear with me :D\]

So, I am currently in a pretty annoying dilemma concerning a group project. It's a long story with many events, but I will try to sum it up. For the context, I am a Psychology Student (Master Degree) and in one of my courses, we have to do a mandatory group project. It won't be graded, but it will be used as one basis for our vocal exam at the end of the semester. I was placed in the only group of 6 and we started working on the project in November. Everyone has a Bachelor Degree in Psychology, so everyone should be about the same level.

In our first group meeting, we talk about the general construct of your project, the chapters, etc., This dude, U., votes for writing the review-section, which basically is meant to review the scientific background of the topic we are writing about. Since it is pretty new, it's the shortest and easiest of all chapters. Everyone is fine with that and we part ways, with me being in charge of the whole editing process and the online workspace we are going to use. So when I go home, I set it up. We are ready to go.

Start December, U. writes an email to me, asking for feedback on his chapter, stating that he has always had issues with writing scientific texts and that his Bachelor thesis prof helped him write it. I go read his text online and, well, I'm not gonna lie, it's bad. Really bad. Not like in a "oh you didn't get the theme, you need to reread it", but more like a "well, you really didn't learn how to write scientific texts, did you?". I am not one to sugar coat stuff, so I write back quiet frankly, basically like this: "U., I read your text. It's tue, you have a major problem with this scientific text writing-skill, but I don't have the time and experience to help you in this regard. I only can sum up again, what you have to do. \[insert summary\] Please go and seek professional help for this, another prof or maybe the Student Council Service." U. replies that he will do that.

For the whole December and the most part of January, he didn't change a thing in his text. Like, not even a letter. In group meetings, we asked him multiple times to work on his part, but he didn't. Starting Winter Break End of December, I start to get stressed. I mean, yeah, it's not gonna be marked, but it s a basis for our vocal exams. If his part is bad, our questions will be bad and I don't want that, even more because the rest of the chapters it really well written. So I write his chapter myself, as a safety measure, so that we can send mine as well if his doesn't improve. To show that our group is able to do better and that U. is just unwilling to seek professional help.

Come January, 15th, our last group meeting. We talk about the chapters, final feedback, you know the drill. U.'s chapter comes up, the feedback: "You need to work on this. This is not okay. We told you multiple times, even helped you with the content. Get your sh\*t together." Deadline is set to January, 20th, for him, because his text needs major edit and exams are close and I am running low on time. The rest has a deadline until 21st, because their stuff is easy to be edited.

Come 20th, he still hasn't done a thing. So I close his deadline and send my alternative text to the group. They are okay with it, saying that they want to send it in with U.'s text, so that we have 2 versions of the same end result. Still, we issue a meeting on the 22nd, yesterday, to talk about it. My expectation: they are going to tell him firmly that his behavior is unbearable. That his work is not okay, furthermore because he didn't edit a single thing. That they are going to be supportive to our shared opinion.

The reality: Silence. U. talks for the first 15 minutes of our meeting about how we are to blame that he didn't improve, that he asked for help but noone helped him. That he did his best and that he just isn't able to do better and that we have to deal with it. He won't even let other people talk properly when it's their spot. I am furious and I, for my part, tell him exactly what I think: that his behavior is sickening and that he is leeching off of the team. That I don't understand what else he expects - is he really that entitled that he thinks that someone has to basically talk him through every word he writes for his chapter? 

At this point, it's apparent that U. won't listen to any feedback. He is set on his opinion. And my group? They sugar coat everything. There is no criticism. There is something like "You should have asked us more directly" and stuff like that. 

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In school, I learned that being silent means that you agree. That it is important to speak up against bullies, racists and the like. And I carry this with me to this day. I firmly believe that when someone behaves like shit, that you have to speak up, clearly and make a point. If you don't do that, you basically agree with what this person does.

So I am devestated. No one has guts to stand up for their opinion, our opinion, that we shared before. I am mad and feel let down. So when I go home, I start thinking: if they are okay with U.'s work, they don't need an alternative chapter, because his is okay obviously. So when I am at my pc, I withdraw my consent for using my alternative chapter. Because they obviously don't need it.

Now they are nagging me for this decision, stating that we decided as a group to send in both versions. But we also decided as a group to stand up to U.'s behavior and they didn't.... Am I being an asshole?