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Yeah, that's the long and the short of it. RMS has had fantastic ideas, and I think he generally cares quite a bit about humanity, but the guy is weird, and peo
by core-questions 6y ago
Yeah, that's the long and the short of it. RMS has had fantastic ideas, and I think he generally cares quite a bit about humanity, but the guy is weird, and people don't seem to be willing to put up with that brand of weird.
(You can be plenty of other sorts of weird and not be cancelled, of course, making the whole thing quite arbitrary....)
- alacombe 6y ago> (You can be plenty of other sorts of weird and not be cancelled, of course, making the whole thing quite arbitrary....) ... and you just summarized everything wrong with the current bs going on. You've got to be the right kind of weird to fit in their narrative, everybody else is gonna be cancelled. "The pot calling the kettle black" they used to say... Today's puritans are no better than yesterday's.
- xref 6y agoYou just hand-waived sexual harassment away as not “the right kind of weird” and speaking out against a serial perpetrator of it as “Puritanism”
- klyrs 6y agoThe "weird" in question is perpetual harassment of women. As in, doing harm to individuals in our community. Granted, He has had fantastic ideas... but has he been contributing fantastic ideas to the GCC steering committee in the last decade? What's he actually bringing to the table that offsets the harm that he causes? And FWIW, I think he's cute and I've never been on a second date with a guy who wasn't socially awkward.