In Mozilla Case, The Left's Intolerance Is Out Of The Closet
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Posted 04/04/2014 06:53 PM ET
Eich: Lynched by lemmings. AP View Enlarged Image
Intolerance: The left hounded a CEO from his job over a 2008 donation in favor of a California measure opposing gay marriage. So much for free speech and job performance. This is a descent into mob tyranny and mediocrity.
The dirty work of the left was achieved after Brendan Eich, recently appointed CEO of Mozilla, a software company based in Silicon Valley, was forced out of the company he helped found, all to feed the maw of political correctness.
Eich's "crime" had nothing to do with his job performance, let alone the inclusive work atmosphere he fostered at Mozilla. All it involved was free speech, through a $1,000 donation he made to express support of 2008's Proposition 8 ballot measure.
That triggered grandstanding and resignations from staff at Mozilla, a 70,000-strong petition from another group, and the dating website OKCupid blocking access by Mozilla's Firefox browser.
It was sickeningly out of proportion to what after all is a mainstream point of view held by millions of Americans — including President Obama, at least until last year — and has nothing to do with whether one likes or respects gay people.
No, it's all about the lemminglike groupthink agenda of certain gay lobbies and the ideological intolerance inculcated into the young by academic elites.
Moves like this serve to create fear and silence, and with it a court of artifice and hypocrisy — not openness, persuasion and dialogue. Did the baying mobs who chased Eich out change any minds? Nope.
All they did was get word out that dialogue is out of the question and that political correctness trumps merit, a very bad sign for a merit-oriented community like Silicon Valley, where nonconformity, wild ideas and hostility to formalities until now have fueled its dynamism.
With Mozilla's leadership now decapitated, the company, including its gay employees, will suffer.
And with political correctness ascendant, it's inevitable that Mozilla's gray, Soviet-style bureaucrats, mouthing the party line by heart and producing nothing of value, will become the stagnant norm there.
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