It is not apples to apples. When BBR was being shorted, it had no support due to FUD spread by a certain camp
Welcome to the rough and tumble world or altcoins. Are you new around here?
In case there is no misunderstanding, I'm not praising these tactics or saying I had anything to do with them, but I recognize them as reality (long before Monero).
And as I said, Monero has been on the receiving end of it, as well, and right from the start, well before any of the reasons you claim we "deserve it" (irrelevant anyway, as you don't really get what you deserve here, you get what you get).
It's just part of the air.