RMS (stallman), potentially uncomfortable discussion
@tastytea@very.tastytea.de I think a big problem with the situation around RMS is that there's such a strong tendency in the community to wave away the serious accusations (which are not new!) as free-standing incidents or innocent mistakes.
In that context, I understand that someone got desperate and tried to come up with everything they could think of, in the hope that at least *something* would resonate with these people.
So I agree that a number of the things on the website are mild and/or strange and/or shitty things to make a problem out of, but in the specific context (and how long this shitshow has been going on for) I'm not sure that there would've been a better option to get through to people, and the whole thing feels like a choice of lesser evils to me 😕
The whole situation sucks, basically, and I'm not sure there was ever a 'clean' solution here.