@sun @get Yeah, rms wasn't trying to defend Minsky, the thing people took issue with was he said that Minsky might not have realized they were trafficked. Basically a nothingburger, but they were waiting in the wings for him to say something that they could metoo.

And for the crime of saying that it might have been slightly less evil, the guy is kicked out of the thing he built by the woke brigade, which immediately starts censoring jokes people made in the 80s, without even noting the censorship:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200507133552/https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.html
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https://web.archive.org/web/20200607140627/https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.html
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