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> If you look in the past of anyone, you will find things they regret and things that may draw censure from the pro-diversity and intersectional feminist mindse
by iiiggglll 11y ago
> If you look in the past of anyone, you will find things they regret and things that may draw censure from the pro-diversity and intersectional feminist mindset. That's natural. That's to be expected.
Serious question: is it also "expected" that people will lose their jobs because of those things, like Brendan Eich?
- millermp12 11y agoSeriously. I mean Hitler left the pilot light on and look what happened to him.
- geofft 11y agoCan we please avoid the "lose their jobs" rhetoric here? Eich's job was never in danger even in the C-suite, until he moved from CTO to CEO. One of the job duties of being CEO is to be the face of your company to the world. Another is to command the continued trust of your employees. Another is not to embroil the organization in unprofitable distractions. "Lose their jobs" has emotional impact precisely because one envisions a hard-working, paycheck-to-paycheck breadwinner with minimal savings. The inability of a man who'd been around for Netscape's IPO to advance from CTO to CEO -- whatever you think about whether that's good or bad, or whether Eich had a way to recover the situation, or anything -- is a very different matter, and implying a comparison between the two cases leads to unclear thinking. Once we've made the distinction clear, we can say, no, it's unjust for a non-management worker who's not representing the company to be fired by their manager over political activities, and no, Eich "losing his job" isn't precedent because it's not at all related.
- KirinDave 11y agoYeah poor Eich, would would have to exercise his golden parachute because his role as face of a company was jeopardized by being a bad face for the company. Hold on, I'm shedding tears I'm so frustrated for him. Maybe he'll have to retire as a multi-millionaire at 65 instead of 60 now.