Re: Support RMS

[Ali Reza Hayati <arh@gnu.org>]

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If you wanted to attack me for this and you couldn't use the email, I 
published the message on my personal site too: 
https://alirezahayati.com/2021/04/15/stop-accusing-people-of-what-they-didnt-do/

On 15/04/2021 21:30, Ali Reza Hayati wrote:
> Do you guys follow football? I mean the real football, not Amerikkkan 
> one. There's a club in Spain named Barcelona. They have a player in 
> their team named Leo Messi. I think many of you know him.
> 
> Messi is believed to be one of the best football players in the history. 
> During time, some people accused Messi of sexual assault and harassment. 
> They even went to court for it and sued Messi. It turned out that all of 
> them were only doing this for money, hoping that Leo Messi gives them 
> some ransom.
> 
> There's another player named Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo is almost as 
> same as Messi. He is again believed to be one of the bests in the 
> history. He also was accused of sexual harassment and assault. Again, 
> some people went to court and sued him, etc.
> 
> Some of the accusers never went to court but they tell very interesting 
> stories on how they were assaulted. There were no proof and the teams 
> (Barcelona and Real Madrid) never responded.
> 
> I can't tell if those players who have a reputation of good behavior and 
> charity and social work were really offenders or not, but I can tell one 
> thing. Barca and Madrid didn't let go of their best players because of 
> some unproven accusations.
> 
> I remember Leo Messi once attacked a journalist physically because he 
> was very angry but again, he made up to that, apologized, and never 
> repeated such behavior because he was aware of how it can affect people. 
> Again, we didn't see any effort to ban Messi from playing football 
> completely because that mistake.
> 
> I'm a football fan. I'm a fan of Manchester United, neither of those 
> teams I mentioned but I never ever campaigned to throw out Messi and 
> Ronaldo for unproven accusations.
> 
> I did not expect those teams to simply fire probably the best player of 
> their history because some people said so.
> 
> Do you get my analogy here? I hear stories about an autistic person 
> named RMS that he has assaulted women, harassed them, or sexually abused 
> them. When I go and read the stories, I see what Stallman did was to 
> "upset" some people. Not harassment, not assault, but upset.
> 
> Stallman shouted at some people or interrupted them while speaking. He 
> hit on women or asked them out and insisted on that, which made them 
> uncomfortable. If he was doing to me, I would be upset too, but I 
> wouldn't ever accuse him of assault or harassment. I wouldn't expect FSF 
> to fire its probably most valuable player that is known for his charity, 
> effort for equality, justice, women's rights, etc.
> 
> Why people expect FSF to fire its probably best player in history? I 
> don't understand that.
> 
> What people explain is not sexual harassment. He was an unpleasant 
> person, maybe, to some people but he didn't do anything to harass them.
> 
> Let me give you another example. There's a different between patting 
> some child on the butt and pedophilia. Now a pedophile most-probably 
> does pat children on the butt but are all people who do that pedophiles? 
> Hell no.
> 
> Please don't accuse people of what they didn't do because they made you 
> uncomfortable or were unpleasant. If someone shouts at you, defend 
> yourself or if the act of shouting makes you psychologically hurt, 
> please be very very careful when you come out of your home because you 
> may experience it almost every time.
> 
> If someone hitting on you makes you uncomfortable, ask them not to do 
> that or ask security to help you but don't accuse that person of 
> harassment because looking at someone or being weird is not harassment. 
> And again, please be careful when you come out of your house because you 
> may experience it every day.
> 
> If someone interrupts you, ask them not to do that or argue back but 
> don't accuse that person of harassment because they didn't harass you 
> with that. Harassment is different. And please be careful when you come 
> out of your house because people may interrupt you every day.
> 
> Stop with accusing people of things when they didn't do that.
> 
> Also, please don't accuse me of sexual harassment because I wrote this 
> note. I don't even know any of you and I did not harass you. Disagreeing 
> with you is not harassment. Sending email messages is not assault.
> 
> I had to clarify that because as far as I've seen you people, the next 
> open letter would've been for me. Don't start arh-open-letter please. 
> And yes, I'm mocking some people.
> 

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Ali Reza Hayati (https://alirezahayati.com)
Libre culture activist and privacy advocate
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