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Some Mozilla Employees Demand New CEO Step Down
_xeno_ (155264) writes "Mozilla recently named a new CEO, Brendan Eich, and as commentators in that article noted, there could be some backlash over his private contributions to political campaigns. Well, it turns out that they were correct, and despite a statement from Brendan Eich pledging to continue Mozilla's inclusiveness, some Mozilla employees are calling for him to step down. Should private beliefs be enough to prevent someone from heading a project they helped found?"
Utter bullshit. Complete ignorance. Entitled, frat-boy whining.
This is about Brendan Eich's PUBLIC ACTIONS, not his private beliefs. Yes, Brendan Eich is responsible and culpable for his PUBLIC ACTIONS. Nobody else is. Nobody has a responsibility to protect the integrity of Brendan Eich's small mind. Nobody has a responsibility to be kicked in the face by Brendan Eich and then smile back at him in return.
This is also not about Brendan Eich's suffering. The suffering here is the married couples who were told their marriages were not valid because of Brendan Eich's public actions. The suffering here is their kids who had married parents one day and not the next. The suffering here is the people who could not get married when the appropriate time came in their relationship because of Brendan Eich's public actions. The suffering here is the people who died while their marriages were invalidated and their spouses lost the home to the tax man because they were seen as just a platonic friend who gifted a house to another platonic friend. The suffering here is the American wives and husbands who watched their foreign spouses get deported back to their home country instead of given Green Cards like the Brendan Eich -approved straight couple next door. The suffering here is the wives and husbands who couldn't get into a hospital room to see their sick or injured or dying spouse because of motherfucking Brendan Eich's actions. The suffering here is the wedding industry in California that lost 15–25% of its business while Prop 8 was in place, including some straight couples who refused to get married while gay couples could not.
Brendan Eich's suffering has only just begun. And it is entirely self-inflicted. He slapped the world and the world is slapping him back. And he is not even sorry for what he did. He hasn't even woken up from his hysteria and recognized, whoa, I was wrong about this, I should apologize for trying to create a 2-tier segregation society in the United States of America in the fucking 21st century. He hasn't said I was wrong to try to break up loving families. He hasn't said I was wrong to cause so much pain and hurt for such little reason that even million-dollar lawyers could not find a way to make my case, and even 65 year old conservative judges could not find a way to get the law to agree with me.
Again, this is about PUBLIC ACTIONS, not private beliefs. It is not about what Brendan Eich thinks or feels or believes. It is about his actions. It is about things he did which he alone is responsible for. He burned bridges with a lot of people, and now he is complaining that those bridges are gone.
And human rights are not subject to your fucking precious beliefs anyway. You can go around thinking that some of the people around you are lesser people, not real humans, and they shouldn't have the same rights as you. Everyone has a right to what is in their own head. But if you then take action on that, if you actively work to take rights away from those people, if you say right to their faces, “I believe you are subhuman, not a true person, and I have given thousands of dollars to a group that is right now trying to break up your family” then you shouldn't be surprised that those people say back to you, “I don't want to work with you anymore, I don't want to partner with your company, I don't want to support anything you are doing.” That is just basic action/reaction. For Brendan Eich or anyone to say that they not only have a right to try and destroy your family, they also have a right to be treated in some impartial way afterwards by their victims is absurd and stupid and also typical of entitled frat boy culture. That is not how the fucking world works. This was not some kind of political debate like, “should we let Wal-Mart open a store in our town or not?” that we debate and then vote and then move on. This is an active bigot who is unapologetic even now about his campaign to destroy the families of about 25% of Californians. (Roughl