The Excuses for Purging Brendan Eich Are the Old Excuses for Firing Gays
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#2> It used to be social conservatives who stood for the idea that companies could and should fire employees based on the “values” and “community standards” of their “employees, business partners and customers.” Now it’s liberals.
Uh, pretty sure social conservatives far and wide are still wholly in favor of discriminating against homosexuals. We're decades early on this being a case of the persecuted becoming the persecutors.
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#4Whether or not these points have merit, this media pundit is only replying to other media pundits. Some important nuances are being lost. If there is a way to make this sad story even sadder, it's turning it into a political football.
Is there anything Mozilla or Eich can do to clarify things? But I don't know if that matters any more, now that American political commentators have tasted blood.
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#5I think that this case is doing a lot of bad to the cause of gay rights, because it feeds intolerance and radicalization.
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#6> It used to be social conservatives who stood for the idea that companies could and should fire employees based on the “values” and “community standards” of their “employees, business partners and customers.” Now it’s liberals. Uh, pretty sure social conservatives far and wide are still wholly in favor of discriminating against homosexuals. We're decades early on this being a case of the persecuted becoming the pers…
The problem is that, now, it becomes more difficult to argue that people shouldn't be fired because of their opinions about sexual preferences.
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#7I think that this case is doing a lot of bad to the cause of gay rights, because it feeds intolerance and radicalization.
I think that this case is doing a lot of bad to the cause of gay rights
Indeed; if one were of a more conspiratorial bent, they might be inclined to think that's the exact purpose of this whole farce.
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#9I think that this case is doing a lot of bad to the cause of gay rights, because it feeds intolerance and radicalization.
Intolerance of an intolerance is not equatable with the original intolerance.
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#10> It used to be social conservatives who stood for the idea that companies could and should fire employees based on the “values” and “community standards” of their “employees, business partners and customers.” Now it’s liberals. Uh, pretty sure social conservatives far and wide are still wholly in favor of discriminating against homosexuals. We're decades early on this being a case of the persecuted becoming the pers…
The problem is that, now, it becomes more difficult to argue that people shouldn't be fired because of their opinions about sexual preferences.
If someone donates money to support a bill to make it illegal for straight people to marry, then the comparison might be justified. Until then, equating a private, in-born sexual preference (or opinions of such) with attempting to enshrine bigotry in the law is really stretching things.