For anyone new to the thread or anyone looking for a single paragraph that sums up how all of Sweet's failures in life are the result of other people making him pay for their misdeeds, this will do nicely.
From the interview I linked on Page 332:
I Am Not a Misogynist wrote:
I wrote a piece on Ross Perot that ran exactly one month before election day. I was promised a cartoon with it, but the day my piece ran I made the mistake of cussing out a photog [i.e., the freakin' faculty adviser to the college yearbook] who used an overbright flash on me. That dippy cunt got me suspended two weeks and cost me my shot at the big time. I've never forgiven her.
So this woman, a faculty member at ASU, has never been forgiven for doing her job, which caused Sweet to not only curse her out repeatedly (every time the flash went off in the newsroom), but also caused him to launch into a long, loud, sperging tirade about how much he likes lesbians, a tirade interrupted by fits of cursing every time the flash was fired. But it's
her fault that he was punished for his behavior.
Dale has never been forgiven for doing his job at the small-engine shop, which prevented Sweet from staying at home, stuffing his fat face with greasy food, working on his worthless novels and comics, and fapping to children's shows on TV. It's Dale's fault that, many years ago, Sweet almost had to do a bit of work and was terrorized by a little "mullater" boy.
The Herald staff has never been forgiven for doing their jobs, catching Sweet engaging in one of the few activities he's competent at -- plagiarism. If they hadn't caught him, he never would have been punished. It's their fault that he was fired.
The dean of judicial affairs at ASU has never been forgiven for doing his job, expelling Sweet for conspiring to commit statutory rape and for making terroristic threats, among other, lesser crimes. It's the dean's fault that Sweet was punished for being a criminal.
Sweet's brother has never been forgiven for causing Sweet to go to jail after police arrested Sweet for attempting to carry out what he himself describes as an attempt to commit fratricide. It's the victim of Sweet's assault who is responsible for Sweet being punished for being a criminal.
So, Sweet does something immoral, unethical or illegal. He -- of course -- gets caught and punished. And the people who catch him at and punish him for his sociopathic behavior are never forgiven for the heinous offenses they have committed against the august person of Jonathan Mack Sweet, an autistic hillbilly with a cornucopia of personality disorders.
Sweet seems to have followed this line of thinking for his entire life, despite the fact that it has never caused him anything other than trouble. I hope he never changes.
