Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich
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Re: Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich
#2Did Eich use his position to advance his advocacy? That's really the only question of merit. If he applied his views to hiring or firing decisions, that's an HR and legal matter all of its own.
Re: Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich
#3Too little, too late I'd say. This pattern is already thoroughly normalised.
Re: Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich
#4Did Eich use his position to advance his advocacy? That's really the only question of merit. If he applied his views to hiring or firing decisions, that's an HR and legal matter all of its own.
The entire thing was simply that he had donated to some Christian organisations, some of which spent some of their time advocating against gay marriage. That was it.
Re: Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich
#5Did Eich use his position to advance his advocacy? That's really the only question of merit. If he applied his views to hiring or firing decisions, that's an HR and legal matter all of its own.
The entire thing was simply that he had donated to some Christian organisations, some of which spent some of their time advocating against gay marriage. That was it.
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Re: Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich
#6Too little, too late I'd say. This pattern is already thoroughly normalised.
Seems like he actively fought against equal rights and a level playing field. That position should be morally repugnant in a modern society. I’d say doing nothing (I.e. too little) was actually too much.
Re: Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich
#7It worked out for the best; we probably wouldn't have Brave otherwise.
Re: Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich
#8Too little, too late I'd say. This pattern is already thoroughly normalised.
Seems like he actively fought against equal rights and a level playing field. That position should be morally repugnant in a modern society. I’d say doing nothing (I.e. too little) was actually too much.
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Re: Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich
#9The problem was that he was CEO of Mozilla - pretty sure they have had am outsized sample of LGBTQ people in their employ and other tech organizations which they interacted with.
How could he lead an organization when his personal biases was made clear by these donations which was to deny them what most people consider to be a basic human right - the right to life and happiness.
Re: Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich
#10Did Eich use his position to advance his advocacy? That's really the only question of merit. If he applied his views to hiring or firing decisions, that's an HR and legal matter all of its own.
There's an infinite number of arguments on how his publicly expressed (these donations were not anonymous) personal views impact his role as the head of an organization.
If for instance valuable members of the org quit on it, recruiting becomes noticeably harder, Mozilla's PR is impacted and investors aren't happy about it, I'd assume that's enough to ask him to step down.