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[theweaselking]

Mozilla's screamingly bigoted CEO quits. He's still spouting I'm-sorry-you-think-you-feel-pain nonpologies, because apparently EVEN NOW he thinks making it clear that he thinks many of his employees and customers are subhuman but he promises to not let that affect his work is more important than, y'know, apologising or ACTUALLY treating them like they were real humans.

But at least he's gone.

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[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Even most awful fauxpologies manage to include the words "I regret what I did and won't do it again now trust me because my vague promises totally mean you should forget my bigotry!" but he couldn't manage that. He couldn't even bring himself to say "I won't spend money to deny you your human rights".

He's gone - but I will not look at Mozilla the same - the amount of time it took, the apologetics from people in the company - it was disgusting to watch

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one of the special bad parts of this has been watching otherwise-sensible people swap suddenly into the "not-as-bad-as" game because they like Mozilla, or engage in particularly bad "tu quoque" shit. "OKCupid complained about the issue? OKC's SSL cert is signed by GoDaddy's trusted root, and people have complained about GoDaddy's sexist ads! ALL COMPLAINTS ABOUT MOZILLA ARE NOW INVALID"

[thornae.livejournal.com]

I also saw the "But Eich also created Javascript, and since OKCupid use Javascript, they are hypocrites and their argument is therefore invalid!" argument.

Basically, people suck.

But this is an interestingly nuance opinion piece (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/04/why-mozillas-chief-had-to-resign/) on it.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Two weeks ago, Brendan Eich was appointed .... Then it became public that,

No, that's bullshit, and its stupid. Eich's vocal, vociferous, aggressive actions in pursuit of his ideal that "homosexual people" were not the same as "people" LONG predated his choice as CEO.

Anyone who says "then it became public" is an ill-informed asshole, who hasn't bothered to do even the most basic of research.

Also: When you consider the importance of that market, Mr. Eich’s position on gay marriage wasn’t some outré personal stance unrelated to his job

And also Farhad Manjoo you feckless shithead, the problem was not his "personal stance", it was his direct and material support, involving a great deal of money, to a cause that had the sole and exclusive "principle" of treating gay people as less than human. So this was never a "personal opinion" issue at all. Eich did not have a "personal opinion opposing homosexuality" any more than the people who murdered Matthew Shepard did.

Also, and I wish to point this out despite the NYT burying the lede: Eich refuses to apologise. Eich refuses to admit fault. Eich refuses, upon direct confrontation with a one-issue yes/no question, to say "I will not act to abuse gay employees ever".

Dude is so bigoted he isn't even willing to LIE about it.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Man, Manjoo sucks.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Posted elsewhere recently, bears repeating here:

For your typical homophobe to be any further in the closet he'd have to be from Narnia.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I would have been fine if he'd stayed, so long as he weren't such a flaming asshole, if he could at least dance the CEO dance, saying the right things, making the right moves, faking most people into, "Well, he's actually trying." He couldn't do it. And that's the real reason why he had to go: he proved in two weeks that was not qualified to be CEO.