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> It claims the allegations against Minsky are false. I don't think he did.

solosoyokaze 5y ago
From the post: "False accusations -- real or imaginary, against me or against others -- especially anger me. I knew Minsky only distantly, but seeing him unjustly accused made me spring to his defense. I would have done it for anyone. Police brutality makes me angry, but when the cops lie about their victims afterwards, that false accusation is the ultimate outrage for me."
- africanboy 5y ago
  yes, exactly. He was arguing that he was wrongfully accused of rape, because according to the testimony the sex never happened and nobody has been able to prove otherwise (an eyewitness swears that Minsky refused her). He then added that even if the sex happened, and he had no doubt that it could be possible, the victim was sent to him to act as willing, so that would make it statutory rape, due to the age of the girl (unknown to Minsky at the time). He was contesting the legal semantics, not the fact per se. More importantly, he was talking about it on the mailing list of MIT in response to this “deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting one of Epstein’s victims)” In his own words Stallam said The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault” is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation: taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as Y, which is much worse than X. [...] Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the criticism. Hardly a defense, he was calling for better and more precise terms to describe what happened. Something I would expect from someone of his age talking with young students, fueled by passion and rage I’m writing this because I’m too angry to work. says Selam G. on her blog post. Angry people that let their anger win never made the World a better place IMO. Whatever is the truth, I think it takes courage to defend someone you know "only distantly" when you think he's been wrongfully accused (in your opinion) and to do it publicly even though that could cost you your career and you have nothing to gain. Anyway Minsky's long been dead.

From the post: "False accusations -- real or imaginary, against me or against others -- especially anger me. I knew Minsky only distantly, but seeing him unjustly accused made me spring to his defense. I would have done it for anyone. Police brutality makes me angry, but when the cops lie about their victims afterwards, that false accusation is the ultimate outrage for me."

africanboy 5y ago
yes, exactly. He was arguing that he was wrongfully accused of rape, because according to the testimony the sex never happened and nobody has been able to prove otherwise (an eyewitness swears that Minsky refused her). He then added that even if the sex happened, and he had no doubt that it could be possible, the victim was sent to him to act as willing, so that would make it statutory rape, due to the age of the girl (unknown to Minsky at the time). He was contesting the legal semantics, not the fact per se. More importantly, he was talking about it on the mailing list of MIT in response to this “deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting one of Epstein’s victims)” In his own words Stallam said The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault” is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation: taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as Y, which is much worse than X. [...] Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the criticism. Hardly a defense, he was calling for better and more precise terms to describe what happened. Something I would expect from someone of his age talking with young students, fueled by passion and rage I’m writing this because I’m too angry to work. says Selam G. on her blog post. Angry people that let their anger win never made the World a better place IMO. Whatever is the truth, I think it takes courage to defend someone you know "only distantly" when you think he's been wrongfully accused (in your opinion) and to do it publicly even though that could cost you your career and you have nothing to gain. Anyway Minsky's long been dead.