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His point was that we don’t know that Minsky raped anyone from Minsky’s perspective. Go read his actual words again.
by azinman2 6y ago
His point was that we don’t know that Minsky raped anyone from Minsky’s perspective. Go read his actual words again.
- Splendor 6y ago> from Minsky’s perspective Oh no, honey.
- chipsa 6y agoRephrase: no one has actually accused Minsky of rape. Someone accused Maxwell of making her try to sleep with Minsky, but there's no testimony that it actually occurred, and Minsky's widow says there was no time she wasn't with him for it to have occurred.
- azinman2 6y agoI chose my words carefully. I said his perspective as per RMS’s argument, we don’t know how things were presented to Minsky. Eg it might have seemed consensual. I said his perspective because mine is that it’s effectively rape even if consensual and legal when you have someone so young and so old, because the young person isn’t in the position to truly be consensual given their limited understanding of the world. But when the word “rape” is used, the image conjured is very specific and unlikely to have occurred in that way. This is all assuming it’s even true, which I have a very tough time swallowing for Minsky specifically.