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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 68 points 6 months ago

He spends a lot of time discussing why pedophilia isn't rape.

Of a woman having sex with a minor, he said “I wish an attractive woman had ‘abused’ me that way when I was 14.” He directly addressed child pornography by saying that “making such photos should be a crime, and is a crime, but that is no reason to prohibit possessing copies of the photos.” He defended pedophilia, in general, in saying that “there is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.”

https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 6 months ago

Oh no. Oh no.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I've also seen this in comments:

Yeah his public comments are just the tip of the iceberg. He's been a creep for decades at MIT and wherever he went.

He has a phobia of plants so women at MIT have been using plants defensively: decorating their offices with lots of foliage, wearing plants etc, to avoid getting propositioned or groped by him. Seriously, defensive plants, it's that ridiculous.

After people told him that flat-out propositioning every women within earshot is not acceptable, he started handing out "pleasure cards" (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEWlJXRWsAASHJw?format=jpg&name=small). Ewww.

It's a travesty that he remained at MIT/FSF this long given dozens of credible cases of abuse.

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Edit: Replaced inaccessible X link with web.archive.org snapshot link.