I was expecting a terrible non-apology from Stallman, but this is even worse than I thought it would be. #cancelstallmanhttps://twitter.com/theamyshim/status/1172946689553887232 …
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I see you as a agent for change. My worry is with such power comes responsibility. One has to stand above the crowd and wield such influence as a force for good, not fan the emotional flames to create a mob. Why? Mobs have no true leaders, tempered debate or conscience.
I've met RMS and he is odious. You are standing up for someone who would throw Sarah (and me and maybe even you) under the bus without a second thought. He's already done so with many like us and excuses it as "semantics". He defends pedophilia ffs.
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Malcolm, even if someone is odious, the response should not be. My point is that one should not become that which one fights against. Why? Because you loose the moral high ground of the argument for change. It devalues the position held.
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Classic tone policing. It's not unjust or unvirtuous to call attention to and to criticize and resist injustice. In this case (and in many others where folks like you stand up for poor, victimized, abusers) the harm RMS causes far outweighs his worth to society and culture.
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RMS has plenty of money, plenty of social cushion, plenty of networking resources, plenty of time available to devote to bettering himself. He doesn't need your protection, and what we ask of him, in essence, is just to take a long hard look at himself and his priorities
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and to improve. To make meaningful apology, to make meaningful amends, to undo all the harm he's done to countless women and other minorities in Free Software, and his other causes. Because the bias he's introduce into the system, that's his responsibility to fix.
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The reason it's scary is because he has years, decades of harm to fix. But he made that bed. We are only asking him to remake it so we can all use it.
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