On 04/30/2021 02:28 PM, Corwin Brust wrote: > [...] when a woman wrote us to express > personally and specifically her concerns around RMS we ran her off, and > ran her down.
If you are talking about the woman who wrote to this list back in Oct 2019, I was one of the people who responded to her, and I was polite and respectful. I remember another response which was a mindful analysis of her points, in an equally respectful manner. The only really harsh response she got was from someone who has displayed a communication style that I would call "unkind," to put it mildly, a person who has since been heavily moderated and probably banned from the list (I'm not sure of this.) Since Sep 2019 to this day, RMS has received hundreds --hundreds-- of private messages of support, including from women. Most of them prefer not to go public, people feel they are walking on egg shells, they fear for their jobs and rejection from their peers and communities. Such is the level of fright that this self-righteousness cult has created. It's unsustainable and it has to stop. It _will_ stop, in the same way that stoning people for their thoughts did stop at some point in history --but not before it caused utter damage to the advancement towards a better society. Nowadays, stones have been replaced with tweets, but they hurt and kill just as much. That said, whoever has a true intention to be honest and fair should have a look at people who are courageous enough to publicly show the other side of the coin: https://stallmansupport.org/nadine-strossen-hannah-wolfman-rebut-accusations-against-stallman.html https://stallmansupport.org/richard-stallman-vilified-by-those-who-dont-know-him-says-sylvia-paull.html https://stallmansupport.org/renata-avila-trying-to-understand-the-lynching-of-stallman.html https://stallmansupport.org/letter-of-support-to-stallman-and-community-from-karrie-peterson.html https://stallmansupport.org/margarita-lacabe-my-relationship-with-richard.html https://stallmansupport.org/richard-stallman-is-not-transphobic-says-leah-rowe.html https://stallmansupport.org/comments-in-support-of-richard-stallman.html#nina https://stallmansupport.org/comments-in-support-of-richard-stallman.html#bdalzell https://stallmansupport.org/comments-in-support-of-richard-stallman.html#emma https://stallmansupport.org/comments-in-support-of-richard-stallman.html#carla Also relevant: https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-against-richard-stallman.html https://propagandaanalyst.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/practice-of-ritual-defamation.pdf Regards. -- Dora Scilipoti GNU Education Team gnu.org/education stallmansupport.org _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss