"Yes yes yes. Brave was founded by an absolute scumbag."
The linked source cites: "...a 2008 donation of $1,000 to California Proposition 8, which called for the banning of same-sex marriage in California, and donations in the amount of $2,100 to Proposition 8 supporter Tom McClintock between 2008 and 2010."
I assume Brendan Eich was already relatively wealthy at the time and that these donations represented a modest fraction of his income. Whatever happened to some nuance in public discourse? How do people who condemn someone’s character so categorically over donations made roughly 18 years ago function in a workplace with diverse opinions,...
> a 2008 donation of $1,000 to California Proposition 8
The woke/cancel culture crowd (none of whom knew him personally) went after him with a vengeance in 2014, but there were LGBT and LGBT-allied co-workers of his at the time who were aghast at the outrage. Here are three examples I could find online just now [0][1][2]
benjaminkiefl · · focus · HN ↗
The linked source cites: "...a 2008 donation of $1,000 to California Proposition 8, which called for the banning of same-sex marriage in California, and donations in the amount of $2,100 to Proposition 8 supporter Tom McClintock between 2008 and 2010."
I assume Brendan Eich was already relatively wealthy at the time and that these donations represented a modest fraction of his income. Whatever happened to some nuance in public discourse? How do people who condemn someone’s character so categorically over donations made roughly 18 years ago function in a workplace with diverse opinions,...
... or for that matter, navigate society?
TimTheTinker · · focus · HN ↗
The woke/cancel culture crowd (none of whom knew him personally) went after him with a vengeance in 2014, but there were LGBT and LGBT-allied co-workers of his at the time who were aghast at the outrage. Here are three examples I could find online just now [0][1][2]
[0] <a href="https://subfictional.com/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of-mozilla/" rel="nofollow">https://subfictional.com/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of-mozilla/
[1] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150202162458/http://words.tofumatt.com/2014/03/26/on-including-the-uninclusive/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20150202162458/http://words.tofu...
[2] <a href="https://medium.com/@__davidflanagan/for-the-record-7645a4bf8a2" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@__davidflanagan/for-the-record-7645a4bf8...
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