Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
by tgdfhgfh on Thursday April 03, 2014 @06:15PM
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But conservatives who support traditional marriage (and civil unions with the same rights as marriage) are not welcome in the club, right? How is that appreciating a diversity of thought?
Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
by matthewmacleod on Thursday April 03, 2014 @07:39PM
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You know, if Erich had stated "Hey, I'm not pro gay-marriage, but I'm really behind equal civil partnerships that offer all the same rights" then the backlash would be much milder. But there is a vanishingly small number of people who hold that opinion, because it's pretty ludicrous (boils down to 'this word is so important that it must not be changed, despite the fact that I don't object at all to equality')
Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
by LordKano on Thursday April 03, 2014 @09:35PM
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So. You're conceding that there would still be a backlash.
Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
by bemaniac on Thursday April 03, 2014 @06:31PM
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They're not welcome to the club when they're taking actions to strip the rights of another individual. Opinions are one thing, concrete actions are another.
> Opinions are one thing, concrete actions are another.
Where's the line? Donating $100,000? Donating $1,000? Donating $5? Voting? Discussing your opinion? Setting your facebook profile? Telling someone when they ask? Not answering when they ask?
Stop being so dramatic; this was not a lynch mob, it was a bunch of rightly pissed-off people, including many members of the open web community, who were angered that somebody who had been actively trying to strip their civil rights had been promoted to the head of an organisation which explicitly talks about the importance of diversity in the community.
It is really super difficult to reasonably say that objecting to someone's intolerance is in itself intolerance.