In Defense of Richard Stallman

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 11:30 AM UTC

minitech wrote: post #142

verroq wrote: post #81

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> He actively made women feel unwelcome in the workplace and behaved unprofessionally over and over again. How do you know this? How do you know that he deliberately tries to make women uncomfortable? I don't think any women is comfortable near a fat, bearded virgin that eats things off his foot, but to accuse him of deliberately making women uncomfortable implies that he knows some of his actions are off limits and…

> How do you know that he deliberately tries to make women uncomfortable? He doesn’t do it deliberately (probably). The accusations are only that he does it. > I don't think any women is comfortable near a fat, bearded virgin that eats things off his foot None of the things you just listed were part of the reasons they gave. > but to accuse him of deliberately making women uncomfortable Again – deliberate not necessa…

Post by rando832 » Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 11:31 AM UTC

throw0101a wrote: post #114

sergiosgc wrote: post #36

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> It wasn't just awkward demeanor. He actively made women feel unwelcome in the workplace and behaved unprofessionally over and over again. Every episode I read about fell into the category of "socially awkward adult male". If we can't, as a group, tolerate awkwardness, we are very much down the rabbit hole of mandatory social conformity. By all means, point me to a real abuse scenario by Stallman. I like being prove…

> Every episode I read about fell into the category of "socially awkward adult male". If we can't, as a group, tolerate awkwardness, we are very much down the rabbit hole of mandatory social conformity. Perhaps you need to read about more episodes: > I worked 10 years ago at VA Linux which had Richard Stallman on its board of directors. You might have heard that Stallman applied his open source ideas to his publicly…

Post by cambalache » Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 11:32 AM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #76

Diversity -- but no diversity of opinion... Inclusiveness -- but let's ostracize the non-conforming aspie... Fairness -- but let's fire people or make them resign from unrelated positions for their personal opinions, because obviously all of a person's life should serve as a big PR, and god forbid they don't play the role 24/7. Someone might call them for it on Twitter, and what could their employee/organization do o…

Post by zzzcpan » Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 11:33 AM UTC

alltakendamned wrote: post #162

coldtea wrote: post #76

Diversity -- but no diversity of opinion... Inclusiveness -- but let's ostracize the non-conforming aspie... Fairness -- but let's fire people or make them resign from unrelated positions for their personal opinions, because obviously all of a person's life should serve as a big PR, and god forbid they don't play the role 24/7. Someone might call them for it on Twitter, and what could their employee/organization do o…

The whole Stallman story very much seems to be modern day thoughtcrime

Post by lettergram » Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 11:33 AM UTC

smhost wrote: post #232

rvz wrote: post #113

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Spot on. You have just outlined the double-speak of the SV technocracy, which have imposed these hidden codes on those that they disagree with. Mind you that the media has now amplified this and have used all of this to create a new enemy called Richard Stallman. As long as this appalling cancel-culture behaviour stops, he certainly won't be the last one to fall victim to these purity tests. Absolutely hypocritical i…

from reading just this comment, i would have assumed that stallman was stripped of all his land and titles and made to starve under a bridge. what really happened was that he went from holding leadership positions in three prominent institutions to just one. it's easy to have strong feelings about these issues, but let's try to keep things in perspective.