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1. rumors 2. a mattress with “obvious implications” which I doubt he found obvious 3. rms: “I’m suicidal, please date me” Regardless of whether or not this q
by thewakalix 6y ago
1. rumors
2. a mattress with “obvious implications” which I doubt he found obvious
3. rms: “I’m suicidal, please date me”
Regardless of whether or not this qualifies as “harassment” (semantic arguments being pointless), I don’t think this justifies Removing him in any sense.
- vidarh 6y agoI mean, I've had a mattress in an office before, and the implication was I for a time lived in the office. No sex happened there, just poor work-life balance. A lot of the complaints against RMS seem like ableist assumptions about intent to me. Some of his behaviours are clearly problematic, but so is piling on someone this way. Frankly a lot of these attacks tells me more about the lack of empathy shown by the attackers.
- skjfdoslifjeifj 6y agoRMS isn't even the only person that has had a mattress by the door in their office at MIT. It used to be common enough, among both males and females, that nobody thought anything of it.