Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno...
by input_sh on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:14AM
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Those words didn't disappear and resurfaced from some secret tape or whatever. They're on his own blog, first-party information quoted all over the place, and recent email scandal just proves that he never really changed.
Also, here's a quote of his about people with Down syndrome:
> If you'd like to love and care for a pet that doesn't have normal human mental capacity, don't create a handicapped human being to be your pet. Get a dog or a parrot...
https://twitter.com/popey/status/793384010718248960?lang=en
Seriously, everyone's better off with him gone, including free software as a whole. He's not worth defending. It was about damn time he actually faced some consequences for his shitty behavior.
Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno...
by bmn__ on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:45AM
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The quoted sentence addresses the parents or potential parents who purposefully make mentally handicapped children, not the handicapped children.
It's easy to make these kind of reading/comprehension mistakes when one gets caught up in cancel culture and their outrage mobs.
Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno...
by throwiay789 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @11:43AM
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He just called a human being with down syndrome the same as a pet. a human being, nobody is having problems with reading comprehension except the people that have the same mentality as him (pedos, topminds, etc.)
(For reference, in case someone hasn’t read it: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html)
Without saying anything about my own stance on these opinions, it’s intellectualy weak to consider it a firable offense to have uttered them thirteen years ago. People should be stronger than that, and have a wider perspective.