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Contra: > The idea that someone who does enough "good work" earns a pass for inappropriate behaviour is pervasive, and fosters environments where abusers can p
by throw0101a 6y ago
Contra:
> The idea that someone who does enough "good work" earns a pass for inappropriate behaviour is pervasive, and fosters environments where abusers can prosper. People who hold this belief shouldn't be involved in running organisations.
* https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1374093150101200896 https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1374093150101200896
Other folks who did a lot of philanthropy: Jeffrey Epstein, David Koch, the Sackler family (of opioid epidemic noterietay), Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby, Michael Pearson, Raj Rajaratnam, Bernard Madoff, Ken Lay (of Enron).
* https://www.worth.com/the-10-most-toxic-philanthropists/ https://www.worth.com/the-10-most-toxic-philanthropists/
* https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/harvey-weinstein-bill-cosby-and-the-cloak-of-charity https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/harvey-weinstei...
- bondarchuk 6y agoI don't know why you are saying this to me, it is not related to anything I've said in this discussion.
- throw0101a 6y agoYou wrote: > RMS is anti-corporate and pro end-user. Free software has turned out to be immensely useful for big corporations, but mostly because it's free, not because it empowers the end-user. You would expect leftists to be in favour of empowering the end-user, but evidently not. "Leftists" may be for empowering the end-user, but they may not be for allowing someone a pass on certain behaviours just because they happen to share values/principles.