He built a global movement challenging people publically and he's happy to semi-publically state his opinions about sexual assault at the worst possible time, but he will stay silent about pressure to step down to be nice? I'm sorry, but I just don't believe that.
Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman
by rndgermandude on Monday September 30, 2019 @08:14AM
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>He built a global movement challenging people publically
Exactly, is it hard to imagine he doesn't want to take a blow torch to his own creation just as a last "fuck you" farewell?
>happy to semi-publically state his opinions about sexual assault
He said sexual assault is bad. How dare he?!
He rejects the term 'Sexual Assault' completely. https://stallman.org/antiglossary.html#assult
There's plenty of troubling stuff in his writing.
Reading your link, I don't find anything troubling. He says the term is too ambiguous and it makes it easy to (potentially maliciously) misrepresent someone's acts.
If you find anything else he's said troubling please provide me some references as I'm trying to read anything that may help me to understand this episode. (I've already read about his former and present opinions on paedophilia)
Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman
by rndgermandude on Monday September 30, 2019 @09:28AM
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Yes, he rejects the specific term as too non-specific, not that there is sexual violence at all.
His reputation was set on fire and burned to the ground, he was expelled from his life's work, might even have become homeless as a direct result, and most of the people he considered friends or friendly vanished over night (tho, some remain as you pointed out, but decidedly few) destroying most of his social (support) network.