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He didn't write that; it was reported as that. It wasn't appropriate but RMS being RMS wrote about a situation in which the girls were being coerced into prese
by dpbriggs 6y ago
He didn't write that; it was reported as that.
It wasn't appropriate but RMS being RMS wrote about a situation in which the girls were being coerced into presenting willingly, which Minksy then could have believed.
RMS is technically correct - this scenario could have happened - but I don't believe it as Minsky couldn't have been that naive.
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- comex 6y agoHe didn't just say it could have happened. He said that the girl "present[ing] herself to him as entirely willing" was "the most plausible scenario". While he doesn't explicitly claim that it's 'most plausible' that Minsky believed it, this seems to be implied, given that he spends the rest of the email criticizing the use of the term "sexual assault". In this, he is not technically correct.
- wrycoder 6y agoThe best evidence we have indicates that Minsky was not naive - he turned her down, and then remarked to an associate about it. And his wife denies it, she was with him.