[zedshaw]

I think a major thing you're not admitting to is that most of these people and organizations were fucking people over, including me, and then using other's unwillingness to speak the truth to keep it all quiet. If more people outed these community leaders when they screwed people over you might not have this kind of thing happening.

What your sentiment does is simply perpetuate the situation by allowing bad actors in a community to use their popularity to harm individuals, and the individuals then feel like they can't tell anyone for fear of being a "gossip" or "tattle tale".

So, if my problem with someone is between me and them, then I do keep it quiet. But in this case, no it was not kept between us, many of these people actively slandered me, and until I spoke up they did it to many other people as well.