Richard Stallman
A known bigmouth was cancelled, for saying that a friends consensual sex with a legal adult shouldn't be a crime.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2019-09-17 |
Stallman has always been a "character" lacking a brain-mouth (or brain keyboard) filter, and known for couch surfing at anyone's house that will let him. And slightly more hygenic than a homeless person... but only slightly. (We've had exchanges in the past). And I'm not necessarily a fan of mixing software and religion, and his extreme version of it, but he's not a bad guy, and who cares? Let the guy have his opinions, whether I always agree or not.
He's a known entity... if you read his comments, and just give him the slightest benefit of the doubt, you know what he's trying to say... and it's not THAT bad. (That the age of consent, and social standards vary by culture).
Certainly, I think it's fine and righteous that we do NOT allow adults to exploit early teens... but other cultures don't consider 17 year olds having sex willingly the same as rape. And his comments seemed to be around the distinction between the nuance of a willing 17 year old versus a willing 18 year old. It seems culturally narcissistic to not recognize that while the former is criminal in the U.S., not all other countries (or individuals) agree.
This isn't NAMBLA or one of the pedophelia groups that the ACLU and others have defended, it isn't Bill Clinton riding Lolita Express to go to child-rape island, it's not anywhere near as bad as Roman Polanski which Hollywood celebrated and gave awards to, despite far worse. This was an infamous character sloppily defending someone I assume he saw as a friend. (But he sloppily and over-vigorously defends every issue in his life). Cut him some slack.
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There's a lot of reasons to think Stallman shouldn't be your voice/representative, but this is like 50th on the list of most valid reasons.
To me, this is another example of Cancel-Culture going way overboard with their, "You have the right to free speech... but only as long as I agree with it". Richard looks like Richard, and MIT looks like a bunch of bureaucratic asshats.
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- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm74x/computer-scientist-richard-stallman-resigns-from-mit-over-epstein-comments
- Just a reminder: 18 isn't the only recognized age of consent in the U.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States
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