For those that don't know, Brendan Eich is the guy that created Javascript, and co-founded Mozilla. He also served as the company's CEO for about two weeks before being essentially forced to resign as a result of his financial support of Proposition 8 (amendment to make gay marriage unconstitutional in CA) back in 2008. People both within the Mozilla community and programmers outside of the company voiced their disatisfaction and threatened boycotting the company. The chatter was loud enough to the point he resigned stating, "under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader."
Brendan Eich's views on gay marriage, came to light as a result of California's laws on donor disclosure which makes it mandatory to report who contributed what to political campaigns. It also reports who the donor's employer is, and their position within the company. Silicon Valley is especially liberal and progressive, and as a result of Eich being exposed as supporting a political campaign that gays would view as discrimatory towards them, he found himself being forced to resign over his beliefs. You can say that he exercised his political rights, and lost his job as a result of such.
Here's my conflict with all of this. I didn't like how Eich was singled out and forced to resign from his position, especially considering how the law passed considering so many others voted for it before being struck down as unconstitutional. Regarding the seperate case involving donor disclosure laws, it's not often that I agree with Clarence Thomas, but like a prophet he fortold that CA's donor disclosure law would lead to retaliation in the form of ruined careers, smeared reputations, and even potential physical threats. Basically, in CA, people are being discouraged from participating in the political process under possible threat resulting from exposure. Similarly, Donald Sterling's most recent comments, while disgusting, would have remained private had this recording never leaked He's on the verge of being punished (although I don't know how one punishes an owner) essentially for his private views. I don't feel sorry for him, but at the same time the circumstances that brought all this to light are almost as repugnant as his views. For the record, this V. Stiviano is no hero.
I'm curious though brehs, considering most Blacks, especially us males, aren't exactly on the same page with gays, is it hypocritical to call for Donald Sterling's head, yet be sympathetic towards Brendan Eich? I believe Eich was placed in a scenario that was completely unfair IMO. Now we have a similar situation with this racist, and part of me is thinking he was put into a situation unfairly regardless of how dispicable I find him to be.
Brendan Eich's views on gay marriage, came to light as a result of California's laws on donor disclosure which makes it mandatory to report who contributed what to political campaigns. It also reports who the donor's employer is, and their position within the company. Silicon Valley is especially liberal and progressive, and as a result of Eich being exposed as supporting a political campaign that gays would view as discrimatory towards them, he found himself being forced to resign over his beliefs. You can say that he exercised his political rights, and lost his job as a result of such.
Here's my conflict with all of this. I didn't like how Eich was singled out and forced to resign from his position, especially considering how the law passed considering so many others voted for it before being struck down as unconstitutional. Regarding the seperate case involving donor disclosure laws, it's not often that I agree with Clarence Thomas, but like a prophet he fortold that CA's donor disclosure law would lead to retaliation in the form of ruined careers, smeared reputations, and even potential physical threats. Basically, in CA, people are being discouraged from participating in the political process under possible threat resulting from exposure. Similarly, Donald Sterling's most recent comments, while disgusting, would have remained private had this recording never leaked He's on the verge of being punished (although I don't know how one punishes an owner) essentially for his private views. I don't feel sorry for him, but at the same time the circumstances that brought all this to light are almost as repugnant as his views. For the record, this V. Stiviano is no hero.
I'm curious though brehs, considering most Blacks, especially us males, aren't exactly on the same page with gays, is it hypocritical to call for Donald Sterling's head, yet be sympathetic towards Brendan Eich? I believe Eich was placed in a scenario that was completely unfair IMO. Now we have a similar situation with this racist, and part of me is thinking he was put into a situation unfairly regardless of how dispicable I find him to be.
Choose your next words carefully friend, this is the coli.
