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Wasn't the primary premise of the cancellation attempt him defending pedophilia? Everything else was anecdotes and general "he is a weirdo" type accusations, wh

• dkersten 3y ago
  > Wasn't the primary premise of the cancellation attempt him defending pedophilia? That’s certainly the one I remember, and everything else was just people piling on to try and provide more ammo or more legitimacy to that claim because “look he’s a creep in other ways too!”. But the claim that he defended pedophilia is itself false. The lady making the claim quoted him as saying one thing and then immediately criticised the quote as if it said another thing. I don’t remember the details now, but I remember reading the original open letter at the time and being baffled by how that was considered as evidence against RMS. Im not saying he’s not a weirdo or creep, I don’t know if he is or not, just that the accusations against him about his comments on minsky’s visit of epstein’s island were strawnan accusations.