Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by eif034 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:30PM (#7525568)

Burden of proof is on you to prove that "every sufficiently notable LGBT individual" has received "wildly disproportionate abuse, like death threats".

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Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by ceautery on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:51PM (#7525864)

I don't know that there's a list of famous people including sexual orientation and whether they've received death threats or not. However:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6239098.stm - 17% of UK gay students report receiving death threats

http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2008/victims.html - 17% of hate crimes in the US (2008) are related to sexual orientation (mainly against male homosexuals).

I think it would be fair to extrapolate that famous gay people also receive plenty of death threats.

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Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by ciupicri on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:12PM (#7526138)

Nevertheless throwaway137 said "every", not something around 17%.

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