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Can't we have some safety for pedantic nerds in computing of all fields? It's also amazing to me that RMS was the only person at MIT to see consequences. All

• krapp 3y ago
  Richard Stallman is the safest, most protected pedantic nerd in pedantic nerd-dom. He resigned from the FSF and was just let back in because he's Richard Stallman, without so much as a vote or a note to the membership. I get the feeling you're trying to turn this into a "normies hating the neurodivergent" argument or something, which I've seen done countless times in defense of RMS, but that isn't what this is about. No one is out to get the guy who's too weird. He defended pedophilia passionately in those ill-advised posts for years and only bothered to retract after the whole debacle went down. Only once, afaik, almost as an afterthought. And he had a history of creepy behavior towards women that people aggressively ignore, discount or otherwise invalidate. This is the issue - The reaction to him and to his words was perfectly reasonable even if he didn't mean what people thought he meant. If RMS were anyone but the ur-neckbeard "install Gentoo" avatar of nerdkind, with his history and paper trail, no one here would be giving him the benefit of the doubt.
  • redeeman 3y ago
    im curious, did you actually see what he said in its complete form?
• deleted 3y ago
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