@magnicifent

I didn’t want to reblog the photoset because the picture with Karofsky and his dad is kind of upsetting, but I just wanted to agree with what you said. I hated how much they’ve kept retroactively removing/lessening his wrongdoings in order to make his story some odd value of blame free. He doesn’t have to be a spotless human being in order to be someone who was clearly victimized by a homophobic society, I am capable of feeling sympathy for his pain that led him to that horrific step as well as feeling nothing but condemnation for everything he did to Kurt (and others, but Kurt most of all). They took all of Karofsky’s misdeeds and turned them into minor infractions with multiple excuses once they removed Kurt from Mckinley and the story of the victim who got bullied but triumphed in the end became the story of how the bully was the victim all along and how his victim was ultimately responsible for his wellbeing.

Both Kurt and Karofsky’s agency got taken away, but Kurt’s got taken away so he could wander around feeling guilty about how he didn’t do more for someone who sexually harassed, physically abused and stalked him, and Karofsky’s agency got taken away so that the audience shouldn’t have to feel “conflicted” in their sympathy for someone who did horrible things but also had horrible things happen to him later. I hated that they did that and that was what made the episode & the whole arc so crassly manipulative rather than what, with better writing and less gimmick, could have been a story about society having a lot to answer for and people not having to be perfect in order to be sympathetic.