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Re:A Javascript journey with only six characters by geofft on Saturday October 08, 2016 @01:28PM (#12667764)
This feels like basically the reverse of the ad hominem, where if you agree with the things someone is saying in a particular context, you also have to praise them as a person. And it's a fallacy for the same reason the ad hominem is a fallacy. I can respect Brendan Eich's technical views without having to respect his political / social ones, and I can believe that he's amazingly qualified to be CTO of Mozilla, a technical role, and yet amazingly unsuited to be CEO, a political/social role. And this isn't just me - none of the controversy started until he moved from CTO to CEO.

If we can't do that, then we ostracize people who aren't a cookie-cutter $political_view.

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