Even if you don't give a shit about misogyny and sexual harassment in tech/free software, if you're a leftist of any stripe you should be very disappointed with the individualist lens that frames free software discussions, and we have Stallman to thank for that too.
Say cancel culture one more time :brace-cowboy:
I'll admit when I read the original medium post my thoughts were that he's just sort of a weird mouthy dumbass who didn't understand fully what Minsky was accused of and was reacting reflexively to an Important Computer Science Figure being attacked, but reading this it really does seem like a pattern.
The thing that gets me the most fired-up isn't even the harassment. It's a statement like this:
On the one hand, it's good that Selam G.'s post brought attention to his shit. On the other, most of the resulting discussion is about his libertarian ideas of the age of consent and other random uninterrogated colonialist and misogynist views he's put out into the world over the last few decades, which is beside the primary point I think.