That's the only thing I respect him for. That he wasn't willing to lie about his position and say his views had changed. Because if he had, it would have knocked all the wind out of the opposition's sails. Yes, he's absolutely an awful, vile person who thinks he's better than other people and entitled to special rights. But at least he's not also a liar.
What bothers me more is the way everyone perpetuates the lie that he was fired. Nobody forced him out. The Mozilla board were completely tone-deaf to the outrage it caused. He voluntarily resigned because he realized the harm he was causing the company; but if he wanted to, he could have stuck around anyway.
But if some fantasy narrative exists where the board gave him a secret ultimatum, then I take back what I said about respecting him for not being a liar.
Please stop posting your nonsense that Brendan Eich voluntarily resigned. Everybody knows that he was forced out and to pretend otherwise is insulting to anybody reading.
But Eich did not have to resign. The board never even so much as asked him to step down. He chose to step down because he realized how toxic he was to his company's reputation as CEO.
The owner of Chik-Fil-A has taken a lot of flack too for his hateful views, but he sticks around anyway. And as a result, I don't eat there. Eich could have done the same if he wanted, and I would have just not used Firefox at all anymore. And now if you don't want to use Firefox because he chose to resign, then don't. That's your right. If you want to complain about others who protested his promotion, do so. That's your right. But don't claim he was fired when he clearly wasn't. Mozilla's own press release states very clearly that it was voluntary.
The tech community tends to be more progressive than fast food consumers, so the pushback was a bit louder. But Eich had plenty of bigots on his side of this, too. After all, roughly 45% of the country still believes gay people are not deserving of equal treatment under the law.
Maybe you didn't; I also wasn't directly referring to you alone.
I don't know what you want, some kind of world where people are forced to be tolerant of intolerance?
Regardless of which side you are on, or which side the public was clamoring for, it's basic free speech going on here. People can say whatever they want. And Eich could have done whatever he wanted in response.
What bothers me more is the way everyone perpetuates the lie that he was fired. Nobody forced him out. The Mozilla board were completely tone-deaf to the outrage it caused. He voluntarily resigned because he realized the harm he was causing the company; but if he wanted to, he could have stuck around anyway.
But if some fantasy narrative exists where the board gave him a secret ultimatum, then I take back what I said about respecting him for not being a liar.