I always liked the line "the standard you walk past is the standard you accept". Say, you're a volunteer with an organisation, and you're on the receiving end of some intense bullying there from someone who's already been formally sanctioned for bullying conduct in the past, but in this case it's accepted because they're still influential within the organisation even after that. You might then, considering you're not getting paid to tolerate getting bullied, think it's time that you moved on and found somewhere where you're not exposed to that kind of conduct, or that god forbid, if you are, won't walk past it.
Wikipedia has always had a hardnosed culture, and as someone who's pretty tough I've managed to get through it for a lot of years. It's one thing if people exchange hard words in a content dispute, as long as the point is ultimately to resolve that dispute, find an outcome people can live with, and move on. Bullying for the sake of bullying, over a resolved content dispute, on a level I've never experienced in all my years on Wikipedia, because someone feels like that's a thing those around them will accept, is a very different matter. When you're then threatened for speaking up about the influential bully's conduct, it tells you all you need to know about the culture you're dealing with.
We shouldn't have to tolerate that kind of conduct, and I won't. After many years, countless edits and many, many articles, it's time for me to do something else with my time.
Cheers, y'all. The content-writing was fun.