Does anyone have a response to this? The current efforts really smells of a witch-hunt and an attempt to manufacture consent.
Ximin James Lu: > This is my first time posting in a Debian mailing list, apologies if the tone > or is not what you are looking for in a Debian post. I wrote this hurriedly > in an attempt to help the free software movement avoid splintering. > > Stallman asked women out in a way we consider creepy. The letter phrases this > by saying Stallman has sexually harassed women for decades. The letter seeks > to group him in the same category as gropers and actual rapists. > In 1993, he defined pedophilia slightly differently. He made a genuine > apology. This is the basis of the "pedo apologist." > https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September_2019_(Sex_between_an_adult_and_a_child_is_wrong) > > <https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September_2019_(Sex_between_an_adult_and_a_child_is_wrong)> > After condemning the rape of a 17 year old girl in the Epstein case, Marvin > Minksy had sex with the girl, unaware the girl was being coerced by Epstein. > In accordance with the law of Canada and most U.S. states, it is legal to > have sex with a 16 year old girl. Nonetheless, we believe these leaked > private discussions make him equivalent to a rapist. > https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/09/30/in-defense-of-richard-stallman/ > <https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/09/30/in-defense-of-richard-stallman/> > The original open letter's Appendix has two true claims of sexual harassment: > - In 1999, he had a mattress in his office which he slept on. This made some > women avoid RMS because they considered it abnormal and creepy. > - In 1985, he told a woman he'd kill himself if he didn't date her. > The "hot ladies" nametag was fake; it was vandalized from a third party. > https://blog.dachary.org/2020/02/10/how-the-cancel-culture-was-leveraged-against-rms/#post-4297:~:text=As%20for%20the%20label%20on%20Richard,removed%20the%20ending%3A%20(also%3A%20hot%20ladies) > > <https://blog.dachary.org/2020/02/10/how-the-cancel-culture-was-leveraged-against-rms/#post-4297:~:text=As%20for%20the%20label%20on%20Richard,removed%20the%20ending%3A%20(also%3A%20hot%20ladies)> > He has never been accused of groping or sexual assault. > Stallman has hundreds of posts on his personal blog condemning rape, and they > cherry-pick the one post where he argued for a different definition of rape. > https://web.archive.org/web/20210325013942/https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20210325013942/https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html> > The GNU Kind Communication Guidelines ask you to honor gender identity. The > letter says it is "still transphobic" and accuses him of "thinly disguised > transphobia," possibly because it includes calling someone via only > gender-neutral pronouns such as "they." > I strongly urge everyone to avoid splintering the free software movement. I > understand you do not want to be associated with racism, sexism, transphobia, > and ableism. The accusers do indeed label anyone who don't agree with them as > sexist and transphobic. This is how they did it in McCarthy era.[0] Resist > the urge to be performative and stick to principles. > > [0]: https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship > <https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship> -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
