| What's to understand? Gaur fantasizes about victimhood (mine, and presumably his or others; see links below) and makes up facts. On the facts, Mozilla and I both say I resigned, and Mozilla's board members said at the time that they wanted me to stay. But in fantasizing that I was fired, gaur's moralistic and judgmental language exhibits the usual signs that Jonathan Haidt has detailed in "The Righteous Mind": a casting out of the other as beyond redemption and justly punished, without the ability to model said other or address their point of view. (Also without ever adverting to the bad "purging" precedent he's endorsing, which global Trumpism can and will exploit by reversing his right-makes-might-makes-right circular argument. The shoe may soon be on the other foot even here in the USA, at least in large regions; it definitely never left the first foot in places like Saudi Arabia.) Dishonesty and self-pity are not worth hearing or studying -- we have enough of them already. Gaur expresses or implies falsehoods about California law, but I've addressed those elsewhere on HN and won't repeat here. Links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721928 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10654732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9748538 |
Of course, you're right on, and that level of injustice he lusts for invites a cruel backlash. Your ominous parenthetical sidebar is not lost on me, and we may be heading to ugly places under Trump.
I am glad to hear you speak well of the Mozilla board. I know you all were put in an awful bind, and you did the most honorable thing you could.
Take care, I pray for you and for the country.