Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire • Hacker News Board

Re: Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire

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Post by jacalata » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 8:10 PM UTC

malyk wrote: post #200

jacalata wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you intend to just put 'giving women the vote' in a list of bad ideas alongside slavery and Japanese internment camps?

I think he meant that pluralism didn't give women the right to vote for a long time.

makes more sense, thanks.

Re: Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire

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Post by sockypuppy » Sat, Mar 29, 2014, 3:16 AM UTC

woofyman wrote: post #112

hkphooey wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's not a choice or a belief, is it genetic?

In my personal experience as a gay man it's not a choice. It may or not be genetic but it's definitely innate.

If people don't choose their sex partners, why is rape a crime?

Re: Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire

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Post by sockypuppy » Sat, Mar 29, 2014, 3:18 AM UTC

    s/LGBT-friendly/orthodox/
    s/hateful/heretical/

And we thought we were over the sloppy thinking habits that lead to forceful suppression of unpopular viewpoints...

Re: Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire

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Post by jbeja » Sat, Mar 29, 2014, 4:55 AM UTC

gtremper wrote: post #203

Bahamut wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know that part, but boycotting the language he created over 10 years ago & doesn't actively develop is a stretch is more what I was getting at.

I think he was being a bit facetious.

I wasn't :).