Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman
by efdee on Monday September 30, 2019 @06:51AM
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Claiming they were actually willing and claiming they presented themselves as actually willing are two very different things. These are very dangerous accusations you are throwing around - you might do well to stick to what he actually said and wrote.
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Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman
by jimhefferon on Monday September 30, 2019 @06:57AM
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It seems to me not credible that a 70 year old Minsky believed that a quite young lady would, on minutes of meeting him, be so attracted that she would be anxious to be intimate.
Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman
by rndgermandude on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:29AM
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He might have thought she was attracted to him. Anna Nicole Smith claimed to have been attracted to her 90-something husband. There have been enough historical examples where power or intellect apparently attracts. Or maybe he thought she was attracted to Epstein's money and wanted to be on his good side by "entertaining" his friends. Or maybe he was fully aware of the situation.
We cannot know what he thought, and we cannot even ask since he is dead, and we did not even know what actually happened after she "offered" herself (unwillingly and coerced by Epstein, of course).
Possibly, but that is not the point. The point is that RMS never said the victims were willing, which is the quote (or one of the quotes) he's being burnt for.
Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman
by hdfbdtbcdg on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:03AM
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According to eyewitnesses he turned down the advances...