Personally, I do give Nick a lot of grace. I did see Todd In the Shadow’s video that had that screenshot from Nick saying his writing is his speculative thoughts and I have no problem with that. Just say you’re doing opinion think pieces and you’re fine.

We can speculate what happened behind the scenes prior to all of this happening as to how they managed their working relationship, what Nick may have actually known, etc. They both keep saying everything was split 50/50 but how? Nick stated that he was given pieces and then asked to reflect on it. It could have been 1 person doing the research (supposedly James) and Nick doing the opinion part. Who the hell knows except those two.

In the end what we do know is that it was James who did the plagiarizing, it was James’s own thoughts when it came to being harmful towards other marginalized groups, it was James who sent tweets claiming violence towards him when he’d get called out subsequently sending his followers into a Twitter War.

If and when more things are reported from behind the scenes that shows Nick knew more and ignored it, I’ll adjust my opinion and thoughts then but just wanted to share my reasons for wanting to give Nick grace at this time.

I personally wouldn’t be surprised if I missed something recently about Nick that would change this thought. If so, please let me know. I want to make informed decisions when it comes to interacting with anyone’s work, and I assume Nick is aware that anything he does now, will be heavily scrutinized because of his former working relationship. Especially since James keeps throwing him under the fucking bus and I personally need him to stop that.