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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @07:24PM
Did you miss the "If only"?
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Tuesday August 25 2015, @11:01PM
It's an oddly phrased sentence. I see how you're parsing it, and I think you're technically correct to parse it that way, but I'm pretty sure it goes against the intentions of the author (the author can obviously correct me if I'm wrong). Consider this: if the "if only" clause flips the intended truthiness of what comes after it, combining it with "there weren't any research at all that the brain is a gendered organ " outputs something like "There is any research at all that the brain is a gendered organ." This sounds awkward because the phrase "any _____ at all" is only used when people are trying to stress a lack of something.
(Score: 3, Informative) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday August 25 2015, @11:45PM
I apologize for the misunderstanding. I intend to use sarcasm to call out the problem that research showing brain gender is often ignored. Thanks for posting relevant research as well!
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Tuesday August 25 2015, @11:57PM
Well, there you have it; I'm wrong again. That makes four times today that I'm aware of (and many more I'm not).
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday August 26 2015, @01:30AM
Don't sweat it! That post was fairly ranty, even for me.