Stallman fired a trans employee of the FSF who was being harassed by a fellow employee. The employee who did the harassing talked to Stallman about the matter and Stallman chose to fire the trans person..
We have a really hard time existing in the tech world (and the world in general), and I just can't stand the fact that this type of behavior goes without consequence.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/transgender/comments/539x50/breakin...
In fact, the person who made the accusations has a page from a couple weeks ago calling for people to defend RMS and specifically saying that he is not transphobic [1].
I still am in awe at some of the things he has said with impunity. Including comments he made about child pornography that are verified and abhorrent. That's incidentally another topic that is kind of sensitive for me, being the victim of sexual abuse as a child.. so perhaps I'm not without bias here, but I feel like the people who idolize this person are willfully unaware of his true character.
Like I said, trans women (and women in general) have a really hard time existing in the tech world and people like stallman are entirely the problem. So many people enable this kind of behavior and it makes me deeply sad to see that happen.
Which comments? As an aside, I'm too a victim, but I think people should be reeducated, not punished (that American obsession with punishment...) for what they do, not for what they say. Crazy about how many people want to punish another people for what they say, in the land of freedom of speech. I must be missing something, honestly.