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If you have any friends who think it was an overreaction to fire Stallman over one email thread, or who persist in nitpicking what he did or did not say in said email thread, send them this: https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-departure-of-rms-18e6a835fd84 …
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i believe there is a huge difference between people like kavanaugh and weinstein and people like stallman. stallman did what he did because he was autistic, needed affection or sth like that. he did not use his power or hide. i feel sorry for him.
Blaming “autism” for his shitty behavior is an insult to the vast majority of autistic people who are NOT misogynistic assholes.
It is lack of social skills. Maybe it comes from autism, maybe not. I am not a doctor and i did not suggest that all autistic people behave like this towards women.
Social skills are learned, by autistic and neurotypical people. They might be harder to learn for the former, but a person willing to learn will. Stallman was confronted with his behavior violating CoC of conferences - he chose to move it across the street. That's not autism.
He absolutely used his power here. That's how he got away with decades of creeping on women: protected by status and dude pals with power. He just had less power than Weinstein.
That just throws us with autism under a bus. Sensing and expressing emotions is difficult and different, but we are not emotionless and unfeeling of affection. Do not use us for excuses or for pity, it is very degrading.
i did not mean to imply that autistic people are creepy or harm others. i am sorry if it came out like this. i just said i have understanding if sb with autism does not get the social codes. imo rms does not get social codes and harms mostly himself with his behavior
We do have trouble with social codes but fitting into a nuerotypical society requires much thought, planning, and paradoxes. Every situation I am in at least for myself, I am constantly evaluating if what I am doing is proper.This is very much on our minds every moment in public.
If something I say is bad and has constant negative consequences for me, I always try my best to correct it by adjusting how I interact with society. We are fully capable of it, although if you never try and ignore things that goes to the person themselves.
RMS just appears to completely and willfully ignore others and only sets himself as the center, and people like that regardless of who they are (autism or not) tend to end up as toxic people.
For sure he does that. I have read some of his stuff many years ago and he seemed to me like an absolute freedom freak. I started this discussion bc I found the whole thing an overreaction.
He did use, and abuse, his power. At one LibrePlanet, he got up during the Q&A after a talk and started berating the speaker. After a few minutes of that, I suggested he let other people ask Qs, and he yelled that he was the President of the FSF and he could do what he wanted.
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