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It's not a matter of whether they use his software. It's a matter of, he posts hundreds of posts on his personal blog condemning rape, and they cherry-pick the
by crazypython 6y ago
It's not a matter of whether they use his software. It's a matter of, he posts hundreds of posts on his personal blog condemning rape, and they cherry-pick the one post where he argued for a different definition of rape.[0]
He is accused of being transphobic despite asking everyone to "honor their preferences about their gender identity" with respect to pronouns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26584613 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26584613
After Stallman condemned the rape of a 17 year old girl in the Epstein case, Marvin Minksy had sex with the girl, unaware the girl was being coerced by Epstein. In accordance with the law of Canada and most U.S. states, it is legal to have sex with a 16 year old girl. Nonetheless, the open letter accused him of pedophilia.
The letter also claimed that for thirty years, had an unacceptable way of asking women out on dates. He can be taught a better way to ask women out.
He has never been accused of groping or sexual assault.
The "sexual harassment for decades" Stallman did was asking out women in a creepy way.
The original open letter's Appendix has two true claims (and one false claim I won't address here):
- In 1999, he had a mattress in his office which he slept on. This made some women avoid RMS because they considered it abnormal and creepy.
- In 1985, he told a woman he'd kill himself if he didn't date her.
[0]: Ctrl-F this for "rape": https://web.archive.org/web/20210325013942/https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html https://web.archive.org/web/20210325013942/https://stallman....
- mc32 6y agoIt’s such hypocrisy going around. We still have “rape-rape” Whoopi Goldberg on TV but that’s okay.
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y ago> Marvin Minksy had sex with the girl No, you can't claim that! It gets repeated everywhere but so far we only know that [0]: > Virginia Giuffre testified in a 2015 deposition in her defamation lawsuit against Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell that Maxwell directed her to have sex with Minsky among others. There has been no allegation that sex between them took place nor a lawsuit against Minsky's estate. Minsky's widow, Gloria Rudisch, says that he could not have had sex with any of the women at Epstein's residences, as they were always together during all of the visits to Epstein's residences. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky#Association_with_Jeffrey_Epstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky#Association_with...
- bitwize 6y agoOnce again. MINSKY DIDN'T HAVE SEX WITH EPSTEIN'S GIRL. She propositioned him, he turned her down. He was very close to his wife and they went everywhere together.