Is NOBODY wrong in the post ? POST : From time to time I browse some right-wing "news" websites out of a morbid sense of curiosity and, if I am feeling especially masochistic, I take a look at the comment section to see how the other half is looking at things.  

On one site, I kept seeing a particular poster make what appeared to be encouragements for political violence against Democrats, feminists, and liberals/progressives in general.  Nothing that could be construed as a direct threat of violence against anyone in particular, as I suspect he was smart enough to recognize that would cross a legal line, but lots of generalized "It's time Trump started hanging Democrats as traitors," wishing for feminists to be subjected to sexual violence, hoping for prominent Democratic politicians to be killed, etc.  Really lovely stuff.  

I was pretty surprised that the website, which would consider itself a voice of reason among the great unwashed, allowed that kind of thing to go on, but it did.  After seeing this person making these kinds of comments for some time, I Googled his screen name and found that his account name linked directly to his Twitter and Facebook page with his real name. A Google search of his real name linked directly to his place of employment, a government agency at which he held a professional position, with all the contact information of his employer.      

What to do with this information?  After the recent pipe bombings and threats of political violence in the news, and seeing this person escalate his rhetoric in response, I decided that if this person wanted to put this kind of thing out into the world, he could no longer do so anonymously.  I emailed a collection of about a month's worth of his most egregious comments to half a dozen of his co-workers and supervisors at his agency, asking if they were aware their coworker was spending his work hours saying these things.  

A week later, the person's account was deleted, and his position in the state agency listed as "vacant."

I could have DM'd him on Twitter to give him a chance to stop, but I didn't.  I probably knew that by doing this he would likely lose his job, and I did it anyway.  I did so because I was aghast at the kind of dehumanizing and dangerous rhetoric he was putting out into the world, but if I am being honest I probably also did it to take some satisfaction in sticking it to someone like him whose views I find so abhorrent.  

So, am I the asshole for doxxing this guy?  