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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by candu on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:49AM (#24566356)
This is a deeply false equivalence.

In the workplace, employees have (broadly speaking) a _legal_ right to be free from discrimination on the basis of protected grounds. If your boss (or their boss, or their boss, etc.) makes it clear they don't support that: that's not a political statement, it's workplace discrimination / harassment.

That a stance against marriage equality happens to overlap with political fault lines is _entirely beside the point_.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by Veelox on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:40AM (#24566920)
>If your boss (or their boss, or their boss, etc.) makes it clear they don't support that: that's not a political statement, it's workplace discrimination / harassment.

I am going to speak plainly. I don't think people in the Valley really believe this argument. Political opinion is a protected class in California yet people feel free to create a hostile work environment for Trump supporters. It feels like there a set of right answers and you can say the right answers or shut up.

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