Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT
by stevenwoo on Monday September 16, 2019 @09:07PM
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It came out this weekend that Stallman wrote that it was most plausible that the Epstein sexual partners were willing participants and the semantics of the word rape when used to refer to the children with whom Epstein had sexual relations in an email thread defending Epstein, Stallman also argued about the age of consent varying between different territories so not all the partners were below the age of consent where the alleged crimes occurred. Stallman also defended Marvin Minsky who went to Epstein events against victim accusations that Minsky was part of Epstein's trafficking ring.
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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT
by Cogito on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:25PM
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Just in case you haven't read the rest of the discussion here, this statement
> Stallman wrote that it was most plausible that the Epstein sexual partners were willing participants
is one of the misquotations of what Stallman actually wrote that change the meaning significantly.
He wrote
> We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.
"presented ... as entirely willing" is very different to "were willing"