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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.'"
(Score: 5, Insightful) by jdavidb on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:55PM
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
It's not about kind; it's about behavior. If you are going to be disrespectful to me, I don't care if it's because you're a feminist or a fundamentalist or gay or Jewish or Baptist or man or woman or black or polka dotted. I will be glad to see you gone, and in fact I'll probably leave myself, first, just to get away from you. Life is too short to spend it around hateful disrespectful people. I can coexist with just about anybody but it requires that both of us are committed to filtering out certain behaviors and feelings that we might want to express each other, particularly disrespect.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by dcollins on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:06PM
Stuff white people do: Invoke strangely colored people. [blogspot.com]
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday August 26 2015, @12:49AM
This was an interesting read. I feel it's important to understand other viewpoints, particularly in understanding racism. I hadn't realized that the green alien thing was offensive, but that seems obvious in hindsight.
I would propose, however, that there needs to be an acceptable way for white individuals to overcome white guilt. They can't say “I'm not racist” because that's apparently proof they are. It makes sense that invoking green aliens is right out. To invoke Yoda (a green alien!), guilt leads to fear. “Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
How do we tear down these barriers?
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday August 26 2015, @12:53AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2015, @01:04AM
> I have no interest in dealing with racial problems or any other problems in the aggregate.
Then don't stand in the way of people who do.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday August 26 2015, @01:08AM
Then don't stand in the way of people who do.
I don't. :)
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