Richard Stallman: Is it Neurodivergence, or just because he is Jewish?
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Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".
Ricardo Stallmansky ( Richard Stallman ) is a divisive figure. He is the face of probably one of the most important social movements in today's day and age ( the Free Software Movement ), but also a lot of people borderline hate him for some rather serious-sounding stuff. There were open letters attacking the man and communities in support of him. Those who hate him, usually claim he says things that are inappropriate for him to say. Those who support him usually claim that he is Neurodivergent and therefor doesn't quite understand what triggers people. c:0 ↩ Reply
But what if something else is the core of the issue here? What it is not Neurodivergence? What if it is just a simple fact that Richard Stallman was born ( and raised ) Jewish? ↩ Reply
I wrote an article, some time ago, where I use Talmudic techniques to explain Free Software. For those who don't understand what "Talmudic technique" means, translated to 2026 era English slang it would be something like "Rabbithole-maxxing". ↩ Reply
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In Yeshivas ( schools of Talmud ) you usually don't find a typical classroom. It is not a place where a professor is the center-point. Students don't simply listen to lectures. Don't get me wrong, lectures can happen, and rabbis very love giving speeches, but the main form of learning in Yeshivas is usually a Hevruta. c:1 ↩ Reply
Imagine two people sitting opposite each other around a table, each having a book or two. Instead of the professor telling them what to think and how to understand something, they have to argue it out with each other. Obviously a lot of the times Hevrutas can be larger than just 2 people. But in a typical Yeshiva you usually see a bunch of students lawyering at each other, one on one, about the meaning of this or that. ↩ Reply
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If you look at the books themselves you see a lot of layers of meaning. Say you read Gemarah. It is a set of recorded arguments in Aramaic ( an old lost language similar to Hebrew ) of rabbis and gifted students of ancient Israel, about their interpretations of the meaning of Mishna ( a different book ), which is in itself a set of argumentations about the spoken Torah. Gemarah usually has a center-section, which is the original text from the ancient times. And a bunch of more modern argumentations of various rabbis around it. ↩ Reply
When two students sit at a Hevruta, learning Gemarah, they argue about argumentations about argumentations. They are lawyering. They dig into every imaginable rabbithole, trying to find any possible thread, trying to piece together any possible meaning. ↩ Reply
Add to that the fact that Jews remained Jews for thousands of years, while every other people-hood completely assimilated, either becoming Cristian or American or any other thing, you have a people-hood of lawyer mentality rabbithole-maxxing people that don't obey anything, and that will question absolutely and utterly - everything. c:2 ↩ Reply
I came across an interview with this lady Dara Horn the other day, who is some sort of Jewish history professor of some kind. She explained "antisemitism" ( a sort of "buzzword" of late 2020s ) as a tendency of non-Jewish to misunderstand Jewish rabbithole-maxxing as an attack on some sacred belief of theirs. ↩ Reply
There is a joke I like to repeat: If you ask 2 Jews, you will get at least 3 different opinions. ↩ Reply
This is the rabbithole-maxxing I'm talking about. You believe X, a Jew will question X, will dig deep into X, will compare X to Y, will think through X so thoroughly and find all kind of interesting things with X, that from your perspective it is as if the Jew is mocking or outright opposing X. Which in turn, sets you against that Jew. Antisemitism. ↩ Reply
Think about it, Richard Stallman is accused of saying things people don't like. He is accused of digging into things people don't find particularly appropriate to dig into. c:3 ↩ Reply
Take his statements about Marvin Minsky about which he resigned from Free Software Foundation for a couple of years. Stuff that brought the entire internet into frenzy. All it was, was Telmudic lawyering. He was questioning the choices of words. He found a rabbithole and was rabbithole-maxxing it, while all non-Jewish people around him were like: WTF, man. ↩ Reply
Think about it. Maybe Free Software itself. The movement, the copyleft licenses, the weird ways GNU / Linux operating system is built, the fucking EMACS are all this - Jewish Talmudic rabbithole-maxxing applied to the software. ↩ Reply
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c:0 October 15, 2026 Ricardo Stallmansky ( Richard Stallman ) is a divisive figure. He is the face of probably one of the most important social movements in today's day and age ( the Free Software Movement ), but also a lot of people borderline hate him for some rather serious-sounding stuff. There were open letters attacking the man and communities in support of him. Those who hate him, usually claim he says things that are inappropriate for him to say. Those who support him usually claim that he is Neurodivergent and therefor doesn't quite understand what triggers people.
⤴ ViewRichard Stallman is well aware of what triggers people, he is gaming the algorithm.
'The concept of “sexual interference with a human corpse” is curious'-- Richard Stallman. Now tell me, who would write in such a matter and not expect to get interest from the listeners?
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c:1 October 15, 2026 rabbis very love giving speeches
⤴ ViewIt sounds like you had to endure very long speeches.
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c:2 October 15, 2026 Add to that the fact that Jews remained Jews for thousands of years
⤴ ViewNot sure a modern Orthodox Jew would meet eye to eye with one from 3 thousand years back. Not that they do with each other, or themselves.
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c:3 October 15, 2026 He is accused of digging into things people don't find particularly appropriate to dig into
⤴ ViewLike corpses.
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