Bryan did not hold him at gunpoint and forced him to click reject, he did that himself. Empathy is a core value of engineering.
Fantasizing about having someone fired, making no effort to try and understand the viewpoint of the object of one's contempt, does not seem empathetic to me.
As a side note, I found it ironic, that Keith's email that Bryan linked to making the argument that "Empathy is a core engineering value", uses the word "retarded", which by 2013 was already something you could get "cancelled"(or at least chastised) for, because it's not empathetic to the mentally disabled.
All of this misery started when psychopaths like you started ruining peoples careers just for fun, Bryan Cantrill of Oxide.