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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday August 25 2015, @07:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-long-painful-decline-of-a-once-proud-open-source-project dept.

Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has threatened to fire an anonymous person complaining about "social justice bullies" at Mozilla on Reddit, should the person be discovered to be an employee.

Chris Beard stated that the Reddit user aoiyama's complaints "crossed the line" in a series of posts about the women in the company, including recently departed community organizer Christie Koehler. In a series of tweets earlier this month, Koehler complained about Mozilla's lack of diversity in the workplace and its failure to address accessibility issues.

The Reddit user's comments:

"Frankly everyone was glad to see the back of Christie Koehler. She was batshit insane and permanently offended at everything," the user wrote. "When she and the rest of her blue-haired nose-pierced asshole feminists are gone, the tech industry will breathe a sigh of relief." It was that remark that appeared to trigger Beard's warning today. "When I talk about crossing the line from criticism to hate speech, I'm talking about when you start saying 'someone's kind doesn't belong here, and we'll all be happy when they're gone.'"


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:26PM (#227572)

    Well, let's look at her complaints.

    There's the time I raised the issue of alcohol use at company events with our head of HR and got a speech about personal responsibility.

    So, she complained that some people drink (aghast!) and have more fun than she does. She was told that in a free society people can choose for themselves whether to drink.

    We have zero support for addressing and resolving conflict, which means rampant conflict avoidance and passive aggressiveness.

    Probably should be filed under personal responsibility too. Life isn't kindergarten, and it's your job to get along with others.

    (That was said to me by someone from HR while I was trying to get help with the manager who was gas-lighting me.)

    Maybe the problems are yours and not the manager's. Thinking that someone is "gaslighting" you is a paranoid justification of continuing aberrant behavior. More of the same sort of self-justification in the second "tweet-storm" (wow, what narcissism):

    The fact that my tweet storm is drawing attention is not of my own manufacture. It's because what I'm saying is resonating with many.

    It's all navel-gazing from here on out.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by The Archon V2.0 on Tuesday August 25 2015, @08:00PM

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Tuesday August 25 2015, @08:00PM (#227760)

    > > (That was said to me by someone from HR while I was trying to get help with the manager who was gas-lighting me.)

    > Maybe the problems are yours and not the manager's. Thinking that someone is "gaslighting" you is a paranoid justification of continuing aberrant behavior.

    Gaslighting is one hell of an accusation to make of someone. Done in a company it would also require a considerable amount of collaboration, particularly for things like rearranging furniture, altering the lighting, inventing meetings the victim was never at, fabricating e-mails from months previous and having them inserted in the victim's inbox.... You'd need like half the company in on it.

    Or does this person just not know what gaslighting is? Seeing as it's the second time I've seen the accusation made in a week, I'm wondering if this is a valid thing or just some meme that's cropped up where "gaslighting is a thing bad people do, my opponents are bad people, therefore my opponents are gaslighting me".