Greg Batmarx
2 min readSep 18, 2019

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Dear Selam. You may not be aware of what you have done and obviously you are in complete denial but you just made the world a worse place empowering the dark alt-right forces you supposedly fight against.

Richard Stallman is the last person in this world that this system is designed to serve. Among other things, he is a principled antiracist, a long-standing environmental activist, an ardour anti-imperialist, an advocate of LGBT rights, a formidable foe of greedy multinationals AND the initiator of the Free Software Movement.

Yes he is also a loser with women but never in his life was he a rapist or a molester and never he supported rapists or sexism.

As about his controversial sexual opinions which he has changed during his lifetime, these are in accordance with what Wilhelm Reich had proposed. (That controversial guy who triggered the sexual revolution of the 60s empowering the women’s movement)

Because of his principled and non negotiable activism, Richard has powerful enemies all-over the economic and political establishment and because of your unfounded and misinformed attack this establishment took now the chance to oust him from official positions. You were the useful idiot needed to trigger a disgusting backlash against one of the most historical figures of our era and this is how History will record you.

Because of you, the worst kind of misogynists are now feeling justified and empowered to spread antifeminist venom and hatred all over the internet claiming that having reached the point where even Stallman (The notorious autistic arch-leftist)is not immune from losing his professional position for a rather innocent email announcement then no one is safe.

You did this. Your ignorance about his ideas and his philosophy is not an excuse especially when you double down your attack against him even after taking the time to know more about his contributions in fighting against this oppressive, exploitative and unjust system.

Maybe it’s not too late to read “The Lifelong Activist” by Hillary Retting a personal friend of Stallman and start being a really positive person about social change. Being an unwilling puppet of greedy multinationals who desperately wanted the downfall of Stallman and an objective ally (despite your intentions) of far right mysogynists is not the best you can do.

You are young and certainly you can be better than this.

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