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Re:Statement on Re-Election of Richard Stallman to Free Soft... by dvfjsdhgfv on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:06AM (#26577884)
> the rapist Marvin Minsky

I think you might be confusing Minsky with Epstein[0]:

> Virginia Giuffre testified in a 2015 deposition in her defamation lawsuit against Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell that Maxwell directed her to have sex with Minsky among others. There has been no allegation that sex between them took place nor a lawsuit against Minsky's estate. Minsky's widow, Gloria Rudisch, says that he could not have had sex with any of the women at Epstein's residences, as they were always together during all of the visits to Epstein's residences.

It is a basic human right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. In this case, we only know than one person was asked to have sex with Minsky, but it might have never happened. We will never know. But calling a dead man rapist just like that makes me said.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky#Association_with...

Re:Statement on Re-Election of Richard Stallman to Free Soft... by b215826 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:53AM (#26578202)
> RMS is somewhere in the pig, bore, masher triad

You might want to cut down on the adjectives if you want your argument to be taken seriously.

> With no one left to protect him he got run out on a rail.

RMS wasn't "protected" by anyone. RMS has made several controversial statements in the past 30-40 years, most of which are on his website. People did notice it back then too. But apart from rolling their eyes at some of his stances, no one cared, no one felt victimized by those statements, and people went back to their lives as usual. But in today's world of outrage culture, some people have made it their personal agenda to destroy a person's life if they've uttered anything deemed wrongthink by them. RMS is a victim of this attitude.

Re:Statement on Re-Election of Richard Stallman to Free Soft... by smitty1e on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:26AM (#26578419)
I realize that the fatwah against RMS has been written.

And maybe death-by-accusation is a reaction of societal chemistry that must run to its conclusion.

Hopefully the pending dark age at which this sort of action hints is a brief one.

Re:Statement on Re-Election of Richard Stallman to Free Soft... by shadowgovt on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:34AM (#26579431)
It really does a disservice to the people in history who have actually been murdered due to a religious decree to compare their fates to somebody stepping down (temporarily) from a leadership role at a private institution.

Perspective.

Re:Statement on Re-Election of Richard Stallman to Free Soft... by smitty1e on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:19PM (#26586284)
FATWAH: a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar;

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Re:Statement on Re-Election of Richard Stallman to Free Soft... by Gibbon1 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @02:29PM (#26583665)
RMS could have avoided all this by behaving professionally towards women.
Re:Statement on Re-Election of Richard Stallman to Free Soft... by Rule35 on Sunday March 28, 2021 @04:28PM (#26614168)
Says a person who presumably never met RMS, or saw his "behavior".
Re:Statement on Re-Election of Richard Stallman to Free Soft... by smitty1e on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:13PM (#26683284)
I traded email with him some decades ago, wondering if he's more libertarian than far-Left in his politics.

Came away with the notion that he's an original thinker, and getting to heavy with labels is not helpful.