Mozilla's embattled chief executive is resigning after a revolt among employees drew attention to political contributions he made in 2008 opposing same-sex marriage.
The maker of the popular Firefox Web browser announced Thursday on its blog that Brendan Eich would no longer be serving as its chief executive — just days after Eich had taken the helm of the organization.
"We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it’s because we haven’t stayed true to ourselves," wrote executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker.
He's a bigot. He can eat a ****.
I would not touch him even with your ****.
Cue the people who start crying about "freedom of speech" without understanding what it means.
I would have mixed feelings about this if he was fired or forced to resign. I believe that employees have a right to express their political (or any other) opinions outside of work and I support legislation to protect that right.
Why? His Freedom of Speech was not violated.
Why? His Freedom of Speech was not violated.
**** that. If you make my company look bad publicly, you're fired.
We can't have anything resembling a real democracy*if people are only allowed to publicly express opinions that their boss has approved.
*including representational democracy
I'm eagerly awaiting the movies that Hollywood is going to produce about this new Blacklist and how they're going to paint homosexuals as evil totalitarians enforcing their viewpoint on everyone. I suspect I'm going to have to wait until the universe explodes for that to happen.
I can't wait until I can exercise some firing authority over a liberal or a homosexual I disagree with. I think that I can warm up to this notion that the Left is birthing - firing people for their opinions. You guys sure know how to win friends and influence people. No holds barred. I personally wouldn't have gone with that strategy, but I can learn new tricks and unilateral disarmament is not one of those tricks.
We can't have anything resembling a real democracy*if people are only allowed to publicly express opinions that their boss has approved.
*including representational democracy
I'm eagerly awaiting the movies that Hollywood is going to produce about this new Blacklist and how they're going to paint homosexuals as evil totalitarians enforcing their viewpoint on everyone. I suspect I'm going to have to wait until the universe explodes for that to happen.
I can't wait until I can exercise some firing authority over a liberal or a homosexual I disagree with. I think that I can warm up to this notion that the Left is birthing - firing people for their opinions. You guys sure know how to win friends and influence people. No holds barred. I personally wouldn't have gone with that strategy, but I can learn new tricks and unilateral disarmament is not one of those tricks.
I've hired people whose political opinions I disagree with a lot. As long as you can keep a professional atmosphere and the job is done then usually that's all that matters. You sound like you shouldn't be let within a thousand miles of authority.
I had hiring and managerial authority when I was in the business world. I didn't care about the personal lives or opinions of the people I hired and managed.
Right now I'm in a line of work where I don't have hiring authority. What I'm saying is that liberals and homosexuals are teaching me some good lessons. No holds barred. Harm your political enemies. Do whatever it takes to harm people with opinions different than you. I saw it with Chick-fil-A, I saw it with Phil Robertson, and now I see it with Brendan Eich. Show no nuance, show no tolerance, show nothing but brute power. OK, I'm learning.
We can't have anything resembling a real democracy*if people are only allowed to publicly express opinions that their boss has approved.
*including representational democracy
Then it sounds like you're not ready to wield authority again, because you don't seem to understand what the story is about. Mozilla clearly wanted to project a type of image about itself, and Eich's public behavior ran contrary to that image. There are cases where the lines between personal behavior vs. institution's desired image can get really blurry. This is not one of them.
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