Hacker News Reader

Anything related to gay marriage has become totally "good vs evil". There's no middle ground, no nuanced arguments.

If you're against gay marriage, then you're obviously a homophobic religious gay bashing evil hitler.

I'm glad he stood up for what he believes in and put his money where his mouth was. If only more people (on all sides of arguments) did the same.

View on HN

I don't think it's become that and I don't believe he's "a homophobic religious gay bashing evil hitler". I do believe it's a mistake promoting a contentious[1] person to CEO since that's pretty much guaranteed to cause a PR shitstorm like this.

[1] Allegedly three board members quit because they wanted an outside hire instead of Eich (unrelated to the Prop 8 issue).

SJWs will find a problem with absolutely anyone and anything. You can never please SJWs. The only winning move is not to negotiate with them at all.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com