by exploited » Fri May 02, 2014 2:22 pm
I would hope that none of you would be stupid enough to vote to deny a persecuted minority legal equality while climbing to the peak of the corporate world.
I honestly kind of figured that you'd have come to terms with the blurring of public and private by now. Technology has changed our world irreversibly. People have been doing much worse things to other people because of their beliefs pretty much forever. Losing your job is pretty tame compared to what has happened historically when ideas conflict.
Now that ideas can be spread around the world instantaneously, the pressure to have the right ideas is huge. That isn't going away. There is no sense lashing out against it. The only way to prevent such things from happening is to adopt laws that forbid companies from firing due to matters of conscience, but that simply isn't desirable when people such as Sterling exist. Guys like Eich are collateral, but that doesn't change the fundamental justness of the cause.