[Discuss] RMS

[mark at buttery.org (Shirley Márquez Dúlcey)]

Thomas Bushnell has written a thoughtful piece about RMS on Medium:
https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-departure-of-rms-18e6a835fd84
People who have been following this thread might want to read it.

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:58 PM Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:23:26AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> >     Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a
> >     specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the
> >     criticism.
> >
> > I can not see how, unless you suck at reading English, you can
> > interpret this any way other than that he takes issue with the term
> > "sexual assault" PRECISELY because it is NOT "clearly defined."
>
> So I lied, I do see a way:  If you choose to read in the worst
> possible unstated intentions of the person making the statements.
> This is unfortunately a tactic that has become commonplace in recent
> years.  Then you get the interpretation that you have taken.
>
> > > Now substitute Epstein for Minsky in RMS' rhetoric and see what you
> get.
>
> Actully what rms expressly called for--being explicit about that which you
> are accusing someone--would work just fine if you substituted Epstein
> for Minsky.
>
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