We really, REALLY need to stop equate holding people accountable for their actions and statements to actual mobs, where actual human beings are actually killed. It’s not remotely the same thing.
No one killed and hung and burned RMS for an accusation of rape that did not happen. He said gross shit here and is incredibly influential in the FOSS community. Why is it so horrible to try and make a world where women are treated like god damn human beings instead of objects of desire with no agency of our own? Why is it a bridge too far to hold people in positions of real power and authority in our world to account for the things that they actually say and do?
