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> Yes, but was the sign there before, or not? The story is well known The sign was there And together with it there was an Amnesty International sticker. So
by lostjohnny 7y ago
> Yes, but was the sign there before, or not?
The story is well known
The sign was there
And together with it there was an Amnesty International sticker.
So it really depends on what people want to see, more than what's really there.
I've seen much worse sign, like professors not receiving at their office even if they were required to, posting signs with the new address where you could find them (usually their private studio office)
And they only received if it was "really needed" otherwise you just sent an email and waited.
That's what made me really furious when I was a student.
Women were more concerned that they traveled 100kms from their home towns to meet the professor and talk about their thesis and finding their door shut, not of some stupid signs that was clearly a joke made by someone who wasn't a threat to anybody.
The real threat came from the polite, well dressed, highly educated, power angry monsters, those like Epstein.
Stallman is the exact opposite of that kind of men.
- hutzlibu 7y ago"The real threat came from the polite, well dressed, highly educated, power angry monsters, those like Epstein. Stallman is the exact opposite of that kind of men." But he defended someone who associated with Epstein and who had sex with an underage girl, he got from Epstein.
- lostjohnny 7y ago> But he defended someone who associated with Epstein and who had sex with an underage girl, he got from Epstein. He did not. I think it's time to cut with the BS! - according to the sources Minsky never had sex with the girl, if you have proof of the contrary, please provide them - Stallman was not defending Minsky, in fact he even assumed the sex happened, he was arguing against using the term "sexual assault" because its legal definition is very different from the everyday connotation But I found something I think you might enjoy. I found someone who probably nailed it How about, if the old person would be mick jagger? I could imagine, he still has his charms to some. Also I have seen young attractive women aproaching old yoga gurus for example .. But yeah, the old guy wasn't mick jagger, nor a yoga master and at best he did assume the girl was a 18+ old prostitue doing it willingly for money and power And he (Minsky) turned her down. p.s. the author of that comment is you
- hutzlibu 7y agoYeah, I know what I have written. I also know that I have written, that I did not know many details about the case or the witch hunt in general as it was a witch hunt, in which both sides were wildly throwing accusations around and I found it hard to find actual facts. And that seemes to be still he case. Now apparently I misunderstood the comment about the sign being tacked later on, but how do you know Minsky turned her down?
- hvis 7y ago"Both sides"? What wild accusations is the defending side throwing? The details are not 100% clear at this point, but there's a testimonial: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/339725/ https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/339725/ Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky#Epstein_interaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky#Epstein_interact...
- hutzlibu 7y ago"Attention whore" to the women who wrote the blogpost. The claim that the sign was attached to the door later (yours not intentional, but on other comments, I saw it like this) The claim as a fact, that Minsky did not have sex with that girl. When this remains unclear so far.
- hvis 7y agoOK, I'll give you that. But what actually sounds worse, "attention whore" or "creep, pedo and rape apologist"? The girl is likely going to get out of the scandal unscathed, so in my personal opinion she deserves whatever scorn she has received. And whether or not the sex happened, is probably irrelevant in the context of this discussion. After all, it wasn't public knowledge on Sep 12.
- hutzlibu 7y agoWell, many people described RMS as a creep. And when the accusations are true, that for example he told women they should date him or he kills himself, than that is valid. He openly advocated against criminalization of pädophiles. That gets you the term pedo, even though not fair, it is playing with fire. And if it was indeed a case rape, in the sense of exploitation of a minor by minsky, who felt the rush of lust, which the other sides asume, than he is a rape apologist, if he says the most likeley scenario is, that she presented her as "willing", as this is, like I said, the common rape defence. But like I said, I allmost don't know any actual facts, except that the whole discussion was horrible, as most people did not know nor wanted to know facts, before judging.