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Holy shit, did Selam G. really just invent the primary component of this complaint?

Stallman:

> the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing.

Selam G.

> [Stallman] says that an enslaved child could, somehow, be “entirely willing”.

VICE:

> Stallman insists that the “most plausible scenario” is that Epstein’s underage victims were “entirely willing” while being trafficked.



Yes. That's exactly what she did --- and she's not alone; I've seen many other individuals do the same (after reading the primary source). Whether they've all read too fast, or for some other reason failed to parse the sentence correctly, I have not yet determined.


Probably, but it doesn't really matter because the real damage was done by his comments ~15 years ago, it just took the Internet an unusually long time to notice.




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