Would it be better if he publicly lied about his views? Are we promoting an environment where you have to announce all the "correct" political positions to gain employment?
He cant(he donated publicly).
Now he is free to believe what's he wants to believe,just as you and I are free to have an opinion about the subject.Humans are not perfect we all have some level of bigotery and prejudice,noone can deny that. Even I who is pro gay rights.
Are we promoting an environment where you have to announce all the "correct" political positions to gain employment?
Only if you are a public figure in that company,and the CEO obviously is.
He is in the tech business,where these issues are becoming important today. Misogyny,racism at the work place are important subjects right now,we all saw what happened with github and how it can hurt a brand.
It's all about wether Eich as CEO will hurt Firefox and Mozilla brand or not, I believe it will.
You presume that people can't change their opinion.
That would be a fine solution, really.
Is the argument that CEO is a position unlike other positions that hard to grasp? The CEO is the "face" of a company and not just a worker.
I think there'd be outrage if it was suggested that some employee of some company should be fired just because he chose to spend his own time and/or money supporting a pro-gay cause.
Yet as we've seen in this case, it's apparently deemed perfectly acceptable by those who'd be outraged in the other case to level the exact same kind of discrimination against somebody who supports an opposite viewpoint.
I can't see how such contradictory behavior will help garner support. Fighting discrimination with discrimination is self-defeating.