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eastbound ◴[] No.44446316[source]
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Moomoomoo309 ◴[] No.44446460[source]
Do you think those opinions would have made it more difficult to work with certain employees at Mozilla based on certain protected traits in the law? If so, I think the donation is a red herring, it's the opinion itself that's the problem.

Firing people for their opinions is actually fine - if you believe that certain types of people don't deserve rights, for example, and your company has those types of people in it, that's a problem. Freedom of opinion is not guaranteed.

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waterhouse ◴[] No.44446561[source]
Does this approach ultimately lead to the conclusion that people on different sides of the abortion issue can't work in the same company?
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const_cast ◴[] No.44448071[source]
No, it means that those with unsavory opinions should understand it's in their best interest to keep quiet. It's always been the case that saying something offensive can get you fired. I mean, if I call my boss ugly I'm liable to get fired. And that's not even political.
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eastbound ◴[] No.44449618[source]
It means Mozilla is unable to work with people who have other opinions.

I do not have an opinion on abortion, and I’d probably lean towards a yes. But Mozilla being capable of making it a problem out of someone’s history, 10 years earlier, a private donation, shows a major issue of intolerance.

The root cause: Mozilla turned woke, and did look into the past of each employee to fire them. The wokists see no problem with that, but for the rest of us, it’s the darkest time for intolerance.

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const_cast ◴[] No.44449857[source]
Well there's multiple problems here, so one by one:

1. Mozilla didn't fire anyone. My understanding is they actually tried to keep him.

2. Public pressure, dollar voting, and boycotts is just the free market at work. The invisible hand is real but it seems to me as soon as the invisible hand starts pushing stuff we all get uncomfortable.

3. Nobody takes anyone seriously who says "woke". That word means absolutely nothing to anyone, it's just a dog whistle. A type of inverse virtue signal that you are not a serious person worth listening to.

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1. waterhouse ◴[] No.44457660[source]
If you want a definition, a "woke" person is one who prioritizes waging identity-group conflict over other priorities. The more woke, the more things they sacrifice and trample upon to that end.