Pretty innocuous comments in my opinion, much like the hubbub with RMS. The guilt-by-very-loose-association that has overtaken some spaces is absurd. Drawing spurious conclusions creates noise and melodrama, not signal.

Here’s the fantasy I had during term 1:

We nab the fucker, re-open alcatraz, tar & feather him, toss him in a cell, make it a tourist attraction where citizens visit, jeer, and throw corn kernels at the piece of shit.

Then, he went and proposed we re-open alcatraz. It’s fated.