> It is difficult to understand where the HN vulpephillia comes from. I imagine it is in part backlash, fueled by political impulse. Mozilla's appointment of M

> It is difficult to understand where the HN vulpephillia comes from. I imagine it is in part backlash, fueled by political impulse. Mozilla's appointment of Mitchell Baker and subsequent course of Firefox development have taken on unmistakable political valence in the US culture war (especially seeing how its drift could be uncharitably glossed as "coddling non-technical users at the expense of power users"), which resulted in criticism invariably sounding like, and, I guess, even really somewhat functioning* as an attack on the political group that Mozilla is associated with. This, in turn, makes those who support said political group, or simply are exasperated with its most vocal opponents, instinctively oppose the criticism. *I'm thinking of something like the affect-loading concept in https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-mea....