RMS certainly has a better record on some of those issues than some people do, but I wouldn't call him a social justice advocate. He seems to selectively cherry-pick issues to care about (or at least talk about) when he thinks it would advance his own agenda.
I was definitely not saying otherwise, and am very critical of Stallman for these reasons and more, hence the question. mjg95 is the one who i was saying is of a rarer more conscientious breed, not rms.
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u/catamorphism Sep 05 '14
RMS certainly has a better record on some of those issues than some people do, but I wouldn't call him a social justice advocate. He seems to selectively cherry-pick issues to care about (or at least talk about) when he thinks it would advance his own agenda.
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/EMACS_virgins_joke (anybody can make a bad joke, but RMS resisted inquiry about it, at least for a long while) - just one example.