Another 9/11 went by. Some people remembered the US-supported coup in Chile. Some remembered the twin towers in NYC. Me, I remembered the assassination of the city mayor the night before. I’m sorry for all these victims of violence.
But even closer to my heart, I remembered an MIT student and blogger, legitimately angry at institutional misogyny, who got fed a package of disinformation that triggered her into writing a hate letter that brought great injustice onto a long-time feminist. I’m sorry for the misogyny she faced, and I’m sorry that she was misled and fell for it.
At the time, MIT was in the middle of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, a rich and influential sex trafficker who had donated money and invited researchers to parties. He died in prison before trial, in very suspicious circumstances. He could have exposed a lot of other rich and influential people who had used his sex slave’s services, and I’m sorry he didn’t live long enough to tell on them.
People at MIT were angry over suspicions that a late professor had had sex with a teen sex slave at a party at Epstein’s private offshore island. It later transpired
— source fsfla.org | Alexandre Oliva | Sep 16 2023