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Re:Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry. by rsynnott on Friday April 04, 2014 @08:07AM (#7530731)
Look at it this way. If he'd been funding a campaign to make a constitutional amendment to ban interracial marriage, do you think he'd have been able to keep the job?

Like it or not, in the West, gay people are increasingly in the category of people who most people assume should have equal rights.

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Re:Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry. by awwducks on Friday April 04, 2014 @08:18AM (#7530796)
Of course not, but that's exactly the point. We should be able to have unpopular opinions and still be accepted in a community that emphasizes being a meritocracy, etc.

Whether being forced to resign as Mozilla's CEO counts as the community rejecting him is an interesting argument.

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Re:Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry. by zimpenfish on Friday April 04, 2014 @09:42AM (#7531285)
He was accepted - at the CTO level - with his unpopular opinions - even after they became public in 2012 - for years.

But there's a big difference (to me, at least) between being the CTO and the CEO. It's that step people are unhappy with.

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Re:Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry. by rsynnott on Friday April 04, 2014 @08:26AM (#7530841)
Well, I mean, the broader community does accept him, in that he's not going to be arrested for his opinions or anything. Mozilla didn't accept him, and isn't required to.
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