| > ...cases of sexual harassment and misconduct. Nobody condones that. No, that would make us feel bad. So instead, every time something happens that we really can't ignore (and that is just the tip of the iceberg) we deny, justify, rationalize or otherwise deny that sexism, sexual harassment etcetera have actually taken place. You can read any thread on HN about any incident and you'll find it full of apologism and denial. And it's not just about women. Anything concerning minorities will get the same treatment. Or in a more recent example, all the threads surrounding the Eich debacle were full of comments suggesting that having a raging homophobe in charge one of the most prominent tech organisations is not an issue and disparaging the "liberal" lynch mob. No, we don't condone anything. We just deny, deny, deny, and round it off by shooting the messenger. Your comment is an excellent example of that. In fact, it's pretty much a textbook example of how this so-called tech meritocracy functions. Including the small print that says "and oh, you'll also have to be one of us...". |
He's been there since the Mozilla foundation was started but the chairman of the board said she was surprised about a political donation six years ago "because I never saw any kind of behavior or attitude from him that was not in line with Mozilla’s values of inclusiveness," but apparently you, who I can presume don't know him at all can say with all certainty that he is a 'raging homophobe.'
If there was any evidence that he had ever discriminated against any of his coworkers in his duties at Mozilla or treated any badly because they were LGBT, then you would have a point, but there wasn't.