I have a problem with this whole chain.

First off likening RMS's comments to the incel movement is kind of like the comments made by Gina Carano.

Way off the mark and amazingly incendiary but that does not mean that the author of the comments should largely have their life destroyed by a stupid-comment moment.

Now back to RMS.

I agree that he is likely not the best person to lead the FSF but without the FSF having a clear set of ethical guidelines to things that do not relate to free software then its going to be hard to find someone who is not offending to someone else.

Should he be teaching at MIT.
Well it sounds like there may be a better case there for getting rid of him for hitting on students but that is MIT's problem.

I have a problem with characterizing this as political correctness run amok.
That just throws the whole conversation out without critically looking at it which is political incorrectness run amok.

Having walked through the articles and comments it seams clear to me that some people have taken a bit of information and then extrapolated to find outrage.

I know a man who likes to beat women.

To the best of my knowledge he has never assaulted a woman and all the women he beats are willing participants, some of whom I also know.

Take the first comment alone and you have a right to be outraged.
The rest of the context changes it from an abuser to someone who has a "hobby"(not the right word but I can't think of a better one now) that many would find distasteful.

Lets cool down the outrage in both directions.

On 3/23/21 9:46 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:

... hopefully, not for long.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/free-software-advocates-seek-removal-of-richard-stallman-and-entire-fsf-board/

I propose that GTALUG as an organization add its name to the petition, already signed by a healthy cross section of the FOSS world.

https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada

@evanleibovitch / @el56
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