On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 1:33 PM <[1][email protected]> wrote: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[2][email protected]> writes: > [3]https://www.crnhq.org/cr-kit/ Great document. Thank you, Luke. I specially liked the section 2 on discovery and creativity. It gives a whole new perspective about the potential for good in conflict. With this strategy, I think we could summarize that the problem is that it hurts some people is Richard's lack of tact on occassions. But, haven't we all had lack of tact at times? So, the best solution is not to cancel him. The best would be to channel that lack of tact. I suggest we find a way that his anger can be useful for him and everyone else, without making rules to control him or to portray him as the cause of all evil.
in a word... yes. i do appreciate that i am talking *about* another person (hello Dr Stallman if you are reading this). i have seen the recent announcements - yet more people who claim to be "inclusive" yet who want to "exclude" Dr Stallman. this includes the CTO of Redhat, who garnered support for the "outrage" announcement by polling people internally to find out if they were also "outraged" rather than taking an active responsibility for working out an inclusive solution. my recommendation is this: contact all these people and ask them instead of seeking to exclude someone from their inclusive culture, invite Dr Stallman to get help and training, recognising first and foremost that he's not in the slightest bit "normal", and appreciating that this was what allowed him to start Free Software in the first place. it can even be funny, in the form of online "therapy" sessions. if you are familiar with Terry Pratchett, you will know of the wizard Rincewind having to have therapy, described in one of the many footnotes: i do not recall the details except that it involved a large stick with nails in the end :) although this suggestion is intended to be funny, it's also intended to be serious. the person doing the therapy needs to be a real, qualified therapist (yet also themselves have a sense of humour), the point being to get across that first and foremost Dr Stallman is a human being, second that he's actually trying, and third to find out - clinically and objectively - if there's even actually anything quotes wrong quotes with him. you know what i mean. no human being has quotes something wrong with them quotes. most of all it needs to be taken seriously as a way to teach Dr Stallman (if indeed it turns out that he does need teaching) what the "right" ways are to interact with people. *i don't think anyone's told him that* consequently people are judging him by "normal" standards of social behaviour and we know for a fact that Autistic-spectrum individuals, capable of providing us with so much, just do not adhere to those standards... *and that's precisely why they achieve so much progress*. l. References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. https://www.crnhq.org/cr-kit/
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