mos_8502 :verified: on Nostr: I'm not damning him for what others say, I damn him for what he said of his own free ...
I'm not damning him for what others say, I damn him for what he said of his own free will:
He retracted this one with a non-apology:
> There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.
This one needs no discussion:
> Children: Humans up to age 12 or 13 are children. After that, they become adolescents or teenagers. Let’s resist the practice of infantilizing teenagers, by not calling them “children”.
Somehow he found a way to defend rape as a weapon of war:
> It sounds horrible: “UN peacekeepers accused of child rape in South Sudan.” But the article makes it pretty clear that the “children” involved were not children. They were teenagers.
I don't even know how to respond to this little chestnut:
> Cody Wilson has been charged with hiring a “child” sex worker. Her age has not been announced, but I think she must surely be a teenager, not a child. Calling teenagers “children” in this context is a way of smearing people with normal sexual proclivities as “perverts”.
And this one is just a peach:
> Although this attitude on men’s part is normal, the author still wants to present it as wrong or perverted, and implicitly demands men somehow control their attraction to direct it elsewhere. Which is as absurd, and as potentially oppressive, as claiming that homosexuals should control their attraction and direct it towards to the other sex. Will men be pressured to undergo “age conversion therapy” intended to brainwash them to feel attracted mainly to women of their own age?
Those are Stallman's own, voluntary, *public* statements.
I challenge anyone to provide some kind of "context" that makes the above quotes anything other than what they obviously are.
He retracted this one with a non-apology:
> There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.
This one needs no discussion:
> Children: Humans up to age 12 or 13 are children. After that, they become adolescents or teenagers. Let’s resist the practice of infantilizing teenagers, by not calling them “children”.
Somehow he found a way to defend rape as a weapon of war:
> It sounds horrible: “UN peacekeepers accused of child rape in South Sudan.” But the article makes it pretty clear that the “children” involved were not children. They were teenagers.
I don't even know how to respond to this little chestnut:
> Cody Wilson has been charged with hiring a “child” sex worker. Her age has not been announced, but I think she must surely be a teenager, not a child. Calling teenagers “children” in this context is a way of smearing people with normal sexual proclivities as “perverts”.
And this one is just a peach:
> Although this attitude on men’s part is normal, the author still wants to present it as wrong or perverted, and implicitly demands men somehow control their attraction to direct it elsewhere. Which is as absurd, and as potentially oppressive, as claiming that homosexuals should control their attraction and direct it towards to the other sex. Will men be pressured to undergo “age conversion therapy” intended to brainwash them to feel attracted mainly to women of their own age?
Those are Stallman's own, voluntary, *public* statements.
I challenge anyone to provide some kind of "context" that makes the above quotes anything other than what they obviously are.