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288 points fernandotakai | 5 comments | 11 Aug 15 03:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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alfapla ◴[11 Aug 15 07:59 UTC] No.10039620[source]▶
It's little more than a year ago that Brendan Eich was ousted from Mozilla by an ugly orchestrated cabal. When I read Mitchell Baker's vapid blog post [1] on the decision, filled with polite backstabbing and politically correct buzzwordery I understood that Mozilla has been taken over by politicians and that its decline is just a matter of time.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-...

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mahouse ◴[11 Aug 15 08:15 UTC] No.10039661[source]▶
I can't think of many OSS projects that aren't being manipulated by a strong community of liberals.
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1. andybak ◴[11 Aug 15 08:22 UTC] No.10039685[source]▶
Is that the US definition of 'liberal'? i.e. the one that would apply to most center-right parties in the rest of the world?
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2. LeoNatan25 ◴[11 Aug 15 08:44 UTC] No.10039738[source]▶
"Liberals" in the US - democrats - are indeed center-right of the rest of the world. Look at Obama, Clinton, Biden. They are very center on some issues and quite right on others.
3. tremon ◴[11 Aug 15 09:01 UTC] No.10039785[source]▶
Probably. I've always considered both US parties to be so far right wrt the rest of the world, that anything even remotely moderate would be labeled "liberal" or "communist". Both terms used with extreme prejudice and disdain, of course.
4. stefantalpalaru ◴[11 Aug 15 10:16 UTC] No.10040014[source]▶
There is no equivalent of a European left in mainstream US politics. You see bits and pieces in some small-time candidates like Bernie Sanders, but nothing serious. The red scare did its job.
5. toyg ◴[11 Aug 15 11:20 UTC] No.10040214[source]▶
A U.S. "liberal" is very socially-progressive (pro-gay marriage, pro-choice, pro-environment, anti-racist, mostly pro-regulation and anti-corporate). I think that's the sort of people the parent poster intended to describe. In Europe "liberals" are usually pro-business and socially-conservative.

(Btw, I wouldn't say a U.S. liberal will automatically sit on the right of the European discourse, today. Traditional socialism has virtually disappeared as a political choice in Europe as well, so really there is very little disagreement today between a U.S. liberal and a European with mainstream social-democratic sensibilities -- except maybe on foreign policy.)