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Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by Jtsummers on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:30PM (#7525564)
He supported an anti-gay marriage candidate with campaign contributions. Essentially, if he'd not had the Prop 8 donation, and only the campaign contributions, no one would have made a connection. His donations would've shown that he supported Republican candidates (since he, outside a response to the Prop 8 donation, made no statements regarding gay marriage that anyone ever linked to) and nothing else.
Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by anaphor on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:01PM (#7525981)
How do you know that he donated to these candidates primarily because of their anti-gay rights views anyway? Correlation != causation you know?
Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by Jtsummers on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:06PM (#7526059)
We don't, but no correlation would have been made without the Prop 8 donation. That was my point.
Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by anaphor on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:22PM (#7526253)
Okay fair enough. If your point is that it can be used to argue for more character flaws or whatever then yes, I agree, it can.