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Despite All the Bullying and Mobbing by Slander-Slinging Online Brigades, Richard Stallman Still Commits an Alleged 'Thoughtcrime' (a Belief in the English Language)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 23, 2023,

updated Oct 23, 2023

This is obviously 'wrongthink' (today's position is the same as in 2019, there's no 're-education camp' like in China):

What RMS says (in the homepage or his Web site, the front page):

What the stallmansupport.org site emphasised again this past spring:

Meme: Did anyone reject plural as singular?

RMS: 'They' is plural — for singular antecedents, use singular gender-neutral pronouns.

April 21, 2023: Added some posts from RMS's website that provide evidence he is not transphobic. Updated a paragraph in the home page to say it's no longer possible to sign the support letter. Those who want to show support can send us comments, articles, testimonies, references, for us to publish.: April 20, 2023: Added a comment of support from a transgender person.

This links to LWN:

No, Stallman hasn’t “spent years on a campaign against using people’s correct pronouns,” there literally wasn’t such campaign. In fact, the cited GNU Kind Communication Guidelines literally advocate respecting people’s gender identity, and trying to twist them into something opposite is disingenuous and done with bad faith.