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Your reference to Linus is a great example that completely undermines the entire fundamental argument of "cancel culture". If people complain about your bad beh

Your reference to Linus is a great example that completely undermines the entire fundamental argument of "cancel culture". If people complain about your bad behaviour, you apoligize and we all move on that's not cancel culture is it. That's just people making mistakes, being picked up on them and apoligizing. People aren't setting out to cancel anyone, they've highlighted something they don't like, explained why it's unacceptable, the person at fault has listened and apologized. It's the perfect example of why it's not cancel culture, they entire point of cancel culture is you're not meant to be able to just make amends - you've been "cancelled"

simion314 6y ago
Your changing the history, cancel culture failed to cancel Linus, he had a smart strategy and enough supporters to escape. For what specific issue RMS did not apologized yet? Let us know the issue, why does he need to apologize for that specific one and why if there is no apology for that issue should he be canceled from his own project?
- Traster 6y ago
  It's not "a smart strategy" to apologize when someone points out you've done something wrong. Well fortunately RMS collates all of his posts here: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September_2019_(Statements_about_Epstein) https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_Septe... , so a start would be... actually apologizing for what he said about Marvin Minsky.
  - simion314 6y ago
    Why are you still vague, what did he said and why is it legal, immoral, unpopular or incorrect. Yes i would like a logical phrase that starts from "RMS said X" then I want to see how you extrapolate that using logic to conclude that RMS supports some illegal practices.
    - Traster 6y ago
      Oh sorry, I'm not being deliberately vague - specifically the points raised by the open letter linked to by the article.

simion314 6y ago

Your changing the history, cancel culture failed to cancel Linus, he had a smart strategy and enough supporters to escape. For what specific issue RMS did not apologized yet? Let us know the issue, why does he need to apologize for that specific one and why if there is no apology for that issue should he be canceled from his own project?

Traster 6y ago
It's not "a smart strategy" to apologize when someone points out you've done something wrong. Well fortunately RMS collates all of his posts here: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September_2019_(Statements_about_Epstein) https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_Septe... , so a start would be... actually apologizing for what he said about Marvin Minsky.
- simion314 6y ago
  Why are you still vague, what did he said and why is it legal, immoral, unpopular or incorrect. Yes i would like a logical phrase that starts from "RMS said X" then I want to see how you extrapolate that using logic to conclude that RMS supports some illegal practices.
  - Traster 6y ago
    Oh sorry, I'm not being deliberately vague - specifically the points raised by the open letter linked to by the article.