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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @05:51PM
It is totally fine to have an issue with someone you think is treating people unfairly. If she is mistreating coworkers, or pushing an agenda innapropriately, that is cause for report/discussion. That does not warrant lumping a group of people together and saying they don't belong, that is the cultural version of racism (aka prejudice).
What I observe happening is reverse prejudice. Minorities and women have, and still do, have valid complaints about the white male domination of business. Some take their hurts and became prejudiced, which is always sad. They become what they don't like, in another form.
To see the reverse prejudice hate on the "sjw" movement is hilariously tragic, especially since I'm sure many of the complainers about sjws have ALSO complained about reverse racism in the US. Equal opportunity comes to mind, accompanied sometimes by "dey tuk R jerbs!"
See the whole picture, realize both sides have valid points, and call out the individuals when the line is crossed. Start lumping people into groups too much and you're on the fast track to a cynical and hate filled life.
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Tuesday August 25 2015, @05:54PM
Gotta love messing up the password when submitting a comment before logging in...
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 1) by Francis on Tuesday August 25 2015, @06:01PM
Of course it should change, but it doesn't appear to me like she was engaging with her coworkers in a sensitive way. The only way these things change are if management realizes how foolish they are or you can get enough coworkers on board that the management doesn't have any option other than to realize that this isn't just a couple of cranks.
That tone of her tweets suggest that she was spending too much time and energy on social justice and not enough on her work. Which is a completely legitimate reason for people to dislike her.
Obviously, we don't have anything to go on here, but writing it off is rather ridiculous. Why should any white man support these sorts of changes when we're not really included?