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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by vkou on Monday September 16, 2019 @08:37PM (#20990004)
He was dancing on a tightrope. Whether or not his statements were taken out of context requires a mind-reader to intuit what exactly he, uh, meant by them.

It's not an interesting defense, and given his prior statements on the subject of statutory rape, I'm having a hard time taking it seriously.

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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by michaelmrose on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:08PM (#20990543)
His statement was perfectly comprehensible no mind reading required you are just muddying the waters.
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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by happytoexplain on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:47PM (#20991249)
Surely this means you are either unaware of the many people who took his meaning differently, or you believe they somehow don't count?
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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by catslam72 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:49AM (#20992675)
I believe they were misled by the numerous reports by leading news sites who claimed he described the victims as willing in their headlines.
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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by michaelmrose on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:42AM (#20992627)
People who actually read the thread and took it differently have poor reading comprehension its all perfectly clear.
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