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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: 2, Flamebait) by dcollins on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:58PM
That's just how the SIW (Social Injustice Warriors) operate. Any opportunity for angry white men to whine about "I'm being oppressed" at having so much as a single uppity woman in the workplace, or not being able to abuse them at will.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Francis on Tuesday August 25 2015, @04:15PM
Or more likely getting tired of people tarring us for the "Patriarchy" while demanding better conditions than us because we're men and clearly we already have those conditions. Kind of reminds me of when take your daughter to work day came out and they said that every day was take your son to work day. In my entire life, I only went to work with my dad one day and that was on an off day when nobody was around. He was working construction at the time and needed to poor a cement slab. So, I sat nearby playing in the sand.
I'd wager I'm far from the only one that never went to work with his dad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @09:06PM
> Or more likely getting tired
The loss of unearned privilege is the most painful loss of them all because it feels so unjust. You grew up in a world where you thought you were an egalitarian participant, but now faced with the truth it feels like a zero sum game.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @09:34PM
Kind of reminds me of when take your daughter to work day came out and they said that every day was take your son to work day. In my entire life, I only went to work with my dad one day
Hey Francis, answer me this question - Do you honestly think that when "they said that" they were speaking literally? If yes, how many sons did you know who went to work with their fathers "every day." And if you don't think it was meant literally, why do you think a literal counter-example would be at all meaningful?
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:31PM
No, I don't think they meant literally. But, the meaning is rather clear. I don't think any of the boys I grew up with went to work with their fathers on any sort of regular basis, if they did at all. Perhaps the children of the upper class did, but it's hardly the sort of common situation that they wanted people to believe in.
And the point I was making was that I was at work only in the most literal fashion possible. None of my dad's coworkers were there and I didn't get to see him do anything that might be meaningful to a 3 year old. As opposed to the implied sense that boys regularly get to see what goes on at the office and start making contacts.