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Richard Stallman's political discourse on sex (drewdevault.com)

submitted 11 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I totally disagree with Stallman's views and personally I do find them pretty worrying.

But I also disagree with the concept that employers should be the executive of the court of public opinion.

We have real courts and real police, we don't need to invent a secondary one where people lose their jobs due to shitstorms.

If you think he did something illegal, report him to the police or sue him. If not, then this is freedom of speech. Even though he uses the freedom to voice a pretty crappy opinion.

I mean, if everyone who said something that lots of people disagree with, I guess we would all be unemployed now.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you think he did something illegal, report him to the police or sue him. If not, then this is freedom of speech.

…and? People also have freedom of association, and people can choose not to associate with an organization that employs someone with morally awful beliefs - especially when they make those beliefs very public.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Apparently, Stallman is a net positive for them, so they keep him.

Doesn't mean that they in any way endorse pedophilia.

And the freedom of association also doesn't mean that a bunch of enraged people online have the freedom to decide whom they associate with.

And apparently, in the USA there is a whole party devoted to child marriage and other ways to have sex with minors. That might be the better point to start, because they actually have a say regarding laws on that matter.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

There is this tendency to put people into either the good or bad box and that is something we all need to work on.

In light of his position with the FSF, it is unwise for him to say controversial things unrelated to this role simply because people are just waiting to make hay.

However calling someone bad or evil just because you disagree with them is really nuts. Ironic this forum is suppose to be accepting of differences and Stalmann is certainly different.