If a homophobe being driven to quit his public position because the media is "so deferential to minorities" is your deciding issue, I hope the door doesn't hit you on the way out. The urges that I get to leave the country are due to a surplus of privileged, solipsistic upper-middle class people destroying the place in the name of saving a few bucks on their taxes, or avoiding having to send their kids to a public school, or some other minor inconvenience. Your absence will help with that.

I'm going to make an easy assumption that the author is from the exact same demographic group as Eich, so the controversy over him managed to penetrate the author's fog of not noticing the important issues that are a matter of life or death to millions with the fairly trivial matter of a short-term CEO becoming embarrassed.

edit: Eich seems like a nice guy, so when I call him a homophobe, I'm just saying something factual - not trying to attack his character. My grandmother is a homophobe and I still love her.

Seriously, though: Removing limits to political spending, shutting down the public schools, crumbling infrastructure, universal surveillance, largest prison population in the world, the situation of racial minorities and integration backsliding rapidly, massive unemployment/underemployment, college reaching unaffordable levels, the number one reason for bankruptcy being health care costs from illness, a newly-appointed CEO who donated to defeat gay marriage in California being driven to quit by people who were upset about it.