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Re:John Sullivan resign as executive director of the Free So... by Daho0n on Monday March 29, 2021 @07:27AM (#26620088)
The consequence was that he talked to people about it, changed his mind and apologized. That this gets brought up after the fact is not a consequence of his current opinion and everyone knows this. This is a consequence of a mistake he were big enough to public apologize for (unlike most people online) and then later used against him.

Besides much of what RMS is saying and doing that makes him stick out and he gets harassed over is because of him being neuroatypical.

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Re:John Sullivan resign as executive director of the Free So... by pseudalopex on Monday March 29, 2021 @10:17AM (#26621942)
He didn't apologize for his comments about sex between adults and children.[1] And he didn't say he changed his mind until after he came under pressure to resign. It was his current opinion as far as anyone knew. And that's just 1 of the examples they gave.

Neuroatypical people I know are pretty angry about mostly neurotypical people using their condition to rationalize Stallman's bad behavior.

[1] https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

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