There a TL;DR; on the bottom.
I'm very sympathetic with people (over)reacting to what Stallman said and did.
I'm from a family where my parents and most of my uncles worked in healthcare.
Specifically my dad worked in oncology and my mom in infectiuos diseases.
I've seen patient's relatives panic because of some blood (after a very dangerous surgery) or complaining to the management because some other patient had sever pain and they could not stand them crying.
People are tribal, they usually act as a tribe, if not educated differently or introduced to things they do not know.
Of course I don't have to explain than when some of my friends needed to go to an hospital I was always regarded as the unemphatetic for saying things like "some blood is normal at this stage" or "the pain is gonna go away soon, don't worry" or "well, they amputated that man's leg, I bet I would be crying too. You can't complain about that" (this one really happened to me, when I had surgery to remove the saphenous vein, one of my parents friend came over to visit and asked me "why your parents keep you here with that man crying all the time?", I must specify that in Italy healthcare is mainly public, it was even more 25 years ago, you don't find the private hotel like rooms, and it worked much better than today, but that's another story).
SJWs are the same: they only think about their group, their needs, their right words, without stopping to think for a moment that Stallman started 40 years ago and that for 40 years he resisted, you don't just throw him under the bus because he said something you don't like because you were never exposed to that kind of thinking.
But Stallman would have defended their right to speak their minds if the role were reversed.
And that's why I'm sympathetic with them because they don't even understand the damage they made to themselves.
TL;DR;
We should work together engaging in what makes us similar more than what makes us different.
That's what Stallman did.
Exactly 80 years ago Sigmund Freud died.
> The narcissism of small differences (German: der Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen) is the thesis that communities with adjoining territories and close relationships are especially likely to engage in feuds and mutual ridicule because of hypersensitivity to details of differentiation. The term was coined by Sigmund Freud in 1917, based on the earlier work of British anthropologist Ernest Crawley. In language differing only slightly from current psychoanalytic terminology, Crawley declared that each individual is separated from others by a taboo of personal isolation, a narcissism of minor differences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...