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This outlines the absurdity of what happens when you have to take down leaders just because their entire world view doesn't outline with yours. Is it hypocriti
by joelrunyon 13y ago
This outlines the absurdity of what happens when you have to take down leaders just because their entire world view doesn't outline with yours.
Is it hypocritical of Yagan? Sure. Does it mean he's unqualified to do his job? Probably not.
This post from Arrington's original article is on point
> 5. Is it absurd to judge Yagan as a person based on a single donation, years ago, to a politician well known for waging war on gays? Yup. But that is precisely what Yagan and OkCupid did to Eich...How can a man orchestrate and support a boycott of Mozilla over Eich and yet donate to a hateful politician like Chris Cannon? How do you square that?
- Natsu 13y agoThere are much better reasons not to use OKCupid than this silly fiasco. I'll let the post by OKCupid that they later removed explain: http://static.izs.me/why-you-should-never-pay-for-online-dating.html http://static.izs.me/why-you-should-never-pay-for-online-dat...
- joelrunyon 13y agoIf you think this is about just OKCupid, you're mistaken. It's about what happens when you start applying micro-judgments arbitrarily that have no discernible relation to their qualifications that that have measured impacts on their livelihoods.
- nb4hnp 13y agoI will never bother myself to worry about the livelihood of someone who was at once the CEO of a large company. Judge him or don't judge him for what he did, but I think his "livelihood" will likely survive this ordeal.