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This is exactly why I never want to be famous. I've done stupid things in my life. Most people have. Not the same kind of stupid as Stallman, but stupid. At s
by blagie 6y ago
This is exactly why I never want to be famous.
I've done stupid things in my life. Most people have. Not the same kind of stupid as Stallman, but stupid.
At some point, any of those things may become politically incorrect, and lead to a takedown.
If this continues, the only people dumb enough to be famous will be power-hungry jerks.
My main life's work was a not-for-profit which did some good. It's credited to a power-hungry jerk. More power to him. For me, it's better him famous than me, and good for me.
For society, not so good. You've got a dishonest power-hungry jerk making self-serving decisions on all sorts of key policy-setting bodies, because he's famous.
- danaris 6y agoI think the problem is not so much "having done stupid things," but in general "doing stupid things, refusing to apologize, and doubling down when called out on them."
- sildur 6y ago> Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it. > Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why. https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September_2019_(Sex_between_an_adult_and_a_child_is_wrong) https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September... I'm eagerly waiting for your apology.
- danaris 6y agoGood that he's come to partially recognize where the problem is. If pedophilia apologism were the only reason people wanted RMS out, then you might have a point. Now maybe he can work on not being an asshole in 65535 other ways.
- blagie 6y agoMaybe he is working on those 65535 other ways. Maybe it's hard for people who aren't neurotypical and it takes more work than you can imagine. Maybe it's especially hard in a culture which is at once both vocal about celebrating diversity and less accepting of real diversity than ever.
- sildur 6y agoAmerican culture hates diversity. They like to marginalize and punish whoever looks different, and they have shown it over and over through history. Now, today is trendy to show interest on some specific types of diversity, but from the outside it looks fake, and forced. For instance they make a lot of fanfare about races, big campaigns about changing master to main in a repo, while at the same time they ignore the beggar next to them on the street.
- danaris 6y agoMaybe you shouldn't assume who is and isn't neurotypical, especially talking to them on the internet.
- loopz 6y agoIt has been this way for decades already, ref. Diana.