* Danny Spitzberg <stationaery@gmail.com> [2021-04-16 08:21]:
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 10:04 PM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> * Danny Spitzberg <stationaery@gmail.com> [2021-04-16 07:44]:
> > Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, the recording of the talk cuts off
> > before RMS started yelling angrily.
I don’t know where it is. Sorry, Jean! I can tell you RMS was sitting
in
the back-left of room 123 of the MIT Stata Center, wearing a green
collard
shirt, black pants, and no shoes or sandals or socks (I was not close
enough to smell his feet, however). I hope you’ll believe me all the
same.
You bring up some ha ha cultural differences, but some people are more
free and some not. Would he be Muslim in some kind of a Muslim dress,
would you value him for the merits or how he looks like...
I am grown up in a place where we like to be comfortable, so in the
bus, I will often take my shoes off to be comfortable, but even if it
does not smell somebody will not like it.
Yesterday I was in park as in my role as investor and I am sitting on
ground with a lovely student just as I would be doing it with 14
years old, but somebody may not find it appropriate.
I think those cultural things should not be subject of anything called
"Planet" as if you truly want a planet, accept people how they are,
and look for their merits, not personal choice of having sandals or
not.
Currently being located in Easter Africa, I can see many people
walking barefoot, including in the rain, I see nice woman of about
22-25 walking barefoot on mud, I would do the same to join her. Before
few days receptionist brings me food to my lodge room and I receive
him naked and he does not mind.
Further, that somebody does not have sandals and is sitting behind is
nothing that may be compared to what you say unwelcoming.
What would be unwelcoming is when RMS would have no sandals and would
be demanding that everybody entering the room should have no
sandals.
You see, me personally, not being same as you, I would not mind when
people don't wear sandals, as I am planetary citizen, and I believe
you can be the same. There are larger rooms and public spaces here in
Uganda where you need to put your shoes outside before entering to
keep the space cleaner, I do not say it is really objectively cleaner,
but I am giving you example of planetary differences in human
interactions or intermixed behavior.
Your personal impression does not yet not even closely justify ability
of RMS to speak for FSF, neither justify public shamings.
What I would suggest to you Deb is to start traveling and learn what
our planet really is.