Orson Scott Card? Yeah, it would be. I've been going through my head trying to think of whom I hate so very much that I'd be okay with someone bringing up their jerkitude if they suffered the exact same thing The Oatmeal did, and I couldn't think of any. I classify Oatmeal with the Penny Arcade guys. There are very few steps of douchery below that in my internal classification.

Commenting about what a jerk someone is on a post that is entirely about that person being the victim of theft and a frivolous lawsuit bugs me. Really, really bugs me. It's part of victim-blaming culture.

Again, where's the line? Just how bad does what someone suffers need to be before saying "but they're a jerk" when discussing what they suffered becomes utter douchery? Just how pure does someone have to be before they get sympathy for being a victim, or at least for people who can't get past the victim's assholishness to sit on their hands this one time?