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See also: Brendan Eich, who was booted from his job at Mozilla because someone went digging to find his personal voting record and found something they didn't l

See also: Brendan Eich, who was booted from his job at Mozilla because someone went digging to find his personal voting record and found something they didn't like.

tboyd47 9y ago
What happened to Eich is another issue entirely. The article is about people getting into political arguments with their co-workers and then getting upset when those co-workers don't want to be their friend anymore.
- ubertaco 9y ago
  Yes, but this thread is about people being "punished" by large groups for voting differently from those groups (and how difficult it is to "keep your politics at home" when those groups go to your "home" to track down your politics and decide whether to "punish" you)
lern_too_spel 9y ago
Nobody looked into Eich's voting record. Eich donated to a campaign against gay marriage, and donations above a certain threshold are public record. Gay people and people who support civil rights who are strong enough coders to work for Mozilla will easily find employment at any of a number of other Bay Area employers run by people who support them. Mozilla was losing developers[1], and Eich took the reasonable action of stepping down instead of destroying his organization. You can imagine a CEO spending money to bring back California's antimiscegenation laws and how Asian employees and their allies would react. [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3028664/lgbt-programmers-speak-out-on-mozillas-anti-gay-marriage-ceo https://www.fastcompany.com/3028664/lgbt-programmers-speak-o...
- peoplewindow 9y ago
  So someone went looking into the public voting record, presumably to find things they could exploit to get rid of him. How is this different to what the OP said?
  - lern_too_spel 9y ago
    Once again, it's not his voting record. He donated to a campaign that vilified gays.[1] It was publicized years before he was offered the CEO role and had already made gay Mozilla employees uncomfortable[2], but it's obviously different working with somebody who vilifies you vs. working for somebody who does. The gay employees of Mozilla were understandably upset when he became CEO, and since the Bay Area in general is pretty progressive, many other employees were also upset. They were looking for new employers. I gave an anti-miscegenation analogy earlier. How is this different from a CEO making a public donation to The Daily Stormer (perhaps pointing to the stories of Judas and Cain as justification) and the Jewish and non-white employees and their allies not wanting to work for him? You cannot take public action to vilify your employees and deny them civil rights and expect them to keep working for you. [1] https://youtu.be/pSb3jiuIhUM https://youtu.be/pSb3jiuIhUM [2] http://observer.com/2012/04/tech-celeb-makes-prop-8-donation-internet-goes-berserk/ http://observer.com/2012/04/tech-celeb-makes-prop-8-donation...

See also: Brendan Eich, who was booted from his job at Mozilla because someone went digging to find his personal voting record and found something they didn't like.

tboyd47 9y ago

What happened to Eich is another issue entirely. The article is about people getting into political arguments with their co-workers and then getting upset when those co-workers don't want to be their friend anymore.

ubertaco 9y ago
Yes, but this thread is about people being "punished" by large groups for voting differently from those groups (and how difficult it is to "keep your politics at home" when those groups go to your "home" to track down your politics and decide whether to "punish" you)

lern_too_spel 9y ago

Nobody looked into Eich's voting record. Eich donated to a campaign against gay marriage, and donations above a certain threshold are public record. Gay people and people who support civil rights who are strong enough coders to work for Mozilla will easily find employment at any of a number of other Bay Area employers run by people who support them. Mozilla was losing developers[1], and Eich took the reasonable action of stepping down instead of destroying his organization. You can imagine a CEO spending money to bring back California's antimiscegenation laws and how Asian employees and their allies would react. [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3028664/lgbt-programmers-speak-out-on-mozillas-anti-gay-marriage-ceo https://www.fastcompany.com/3028664/lgbt-programmers-speak-o...

peoplewindow 9y ago
So someone went looking into the public voting record, presumably to find things they could exploit to get rid of him. How is this different to what the OP said?
- lern_too_spel 9y ago
  Once again, it's not his voting record. He donated to a campaign that vilified gays.[1] It was publicized years before he was offered the CEO role and had already made gay Mozilla employees uncomfortable[2], but it's obviously different working with somebody who vilifies you vs. working for somebody who does. The gay employees of Mozilla were understandably upset when he became CEO, and since the Bay Area in general is pretty progressive, many other employees were also upset. They were looking for new employers. I gave an anti-miscegenation analogy earlier. How is this different from a CEO making a public donation to The Daily Stormer (perhaps pointing to the stories of Judas and Cain as justification) and the Jewish and non-white employees and their allies not wanting to work for him? You cannot take public action to vilify your employees and deny them civil rights and expect them to keep working for you. [1] https://youtu.be/pSb3jiuIhUM https://youtu.be/pSb3jiuIhUM [2] http://observer.com/2012/04/tech-celeb-makes-prop-8-donation-internet-goes-berserk/ http://observer.com/2012/04/tech-celeb-makes-prop-8-donation...