Mozilla CEO doesn't support gay marriage

[pat grimshaw]

I understand that the Scottish motor-car industry has also closed.

 

[Alnitak]

I understand that the Scottish motor-car industry has also closed.

Closed, or rusted shut

Just a joke. I am at constant war with rust on my Chevy.

 

[mikey3000]

We are not the ones out to cut our fellow men out of the Constitution.

Our world will be fair and equal whether you or anyone like it or not.

Sorry man, I don't buy that. Discrimination is alive and well amongst the LGBT community themselves. Ageist, weightist, breeders, fashionistas, closeted, etc. Doesn't sound like a fair world to me. But then again, who says the world is fair?

 

[Jack Springer]

It is indeed a roughly century-old boycott. At its height in the 1920s, Ford was forced to apologize and stop distributing his anti-Semitic blurbs, The International Jew, but Henry Ford influenced and reinforced anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. One must understand that in the Jewish community with anything related to the Holocaust old grudges die hard, or anyway never die completely.

Henry Ford died in 1947.

Should non-Jews be upset that Jews helped start the Russian Revolution by personally, publicly and financially supporting the birth of modern day communism?

Time to forgive and forget.

 

[medic1]

Hitler died in 1945, what is your point?

 

[medic1]

I understand that the Scottish motor-car industry has also closed.

Was there ever one in the first place? Nice try, by the way.....

 

[medic1]

Henry Ford died in 1947.

Should non-Jews be upset that Jews helped start the Russian Revolution by personally, publicly and financially supporting the birth of modern day communism?

Time to forgive and forget.

Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

 

[Alpha1]

If you boycott Firefox because of the Brendan Eich connection, you should also boycott all browsers that support Javascript. To do otherwise would be hypocritical given that Eich created the JavaScript.

I'd like to think the goal of boycotting Firefox (assuming Eich hadn't resigned) would have been to encourage the Mozilla Corporation to reconsider their decision to appoint him as CEO and/or him to reconsider his position. I.e., to drive a positive change rather than simply to punish Eich for his anti-gay activities or avoid anything he created as a "tainted" work.

I don't think it necessarily follows from boycotting Firefox that you must also boycott JavaScript. That wouldn't have any impact on Eich or the Mozilla Corporation so what would be the point?

 

[Keeland]

Should non-Jews be upset that Jews helped start the Russian Revolution by personally, publicly and financially supporting the birth of modern day communism?

In Springer's world, war is peace and ignorance is strength.

 

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[Alnitak]

Sorry man, I don't buy that. Discrimination is alive and well amongst the LGBT community themselves. Ageist, weightist, breeders, fashionistas, closeted, etc. Doesn't sound like a fair world to me. But then again, who says the world is fair?

I know. You're one of those anti-gay "bi" married men. You're hardly the first one to grace this forum, and you won't be the last. I swear every other comment (and thread) from you is some snide smear against the LGBT community.

Henry Ford died in 1947.

Should non-Jews be upset that Jews helped start the Russian Revolution by personally, publicly and financially supporting the birth of modern day communism?

Time to forgive and forget.

You're directing this question to the wrong person. I'm not involved with the boycott.

And most Bolsheviks were Christian. Religion has nothing to do with communism, but I understand you might be anti-Semitic because Jews are overwhelmingly Democratic. We know a thing or two about Christians oppressing people, and the fair way to treat minorities.

 

[Jack Springer]

I know. You're one of those anti-gay "bi" married men. You're hardly the first one to grace this forum, and you won't be the last. I swear every other comment (and thread) from you is some snide smear against the LGBT community.



You're directing this question to the wrong person. I'm not involved with the boycott.

And most Bolsheviks were Christian. Religion has nothing to do with communism, but I understand you might be anti-Semitic because Jews are overwhelmingly Democratic. We know a thing or two about Christians oppressing people, and the fair way to treat minorities.

... you've said before here that you're anti-Christian.

 

[Alnitak]

... you've said before here that you're anti-Christian.

The Jewish people are an ethnicity. I'm anti-religion including Judaism. It turns thoughtful wise men into lunatics.

Judgmental evangelicals though, at least in America, earn a special place.

 

[Jack Springer]

The Jewish people are an ethnicity. I'm anti-religion including Judaism. It turns thoughtful wise men into lunatics.

Judgmental evangelicals though, at least in America, earn a special place.

From your posts, you are very anti-Christian ... more than anything else.

 

[cgymike]

the jewish people are an ethnicity. I'm anti-religion including judaism. It turns thoughtful wise men into lunatics.

Judgmental evangelicals though, at least in america, earn a special place.

death to america!

 

[blackbeltninja]

Sorry man, I don't buy that. Discrimination is alive and well amongst the LGBT community themselves. Ageist, weightist, breeders, fashionistas, closeted, etc. Doesn't sound like a fair world to me. But then again, who says the world is fair?

Points taken, but to be fair the twinks aren't out there campaigning to have no marriage equality for the bears, are they?

-d-

 

[bankside]

Points taken, but to be fair the twinks aren't out there campaigning to have no marriage equality for the bears, are they?

-d-

Bear marriage is UNNATURAL!


It goes against God's Perfect Hairless Plan!

What if CHILDREN learn about these hairy overweight people flaunting their loyalty and commitment to each other?

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

I know. You're one of those anti-gay "bi" married men. You're hardly the first one to grace this forum, and you won't be the last. I swear every other comment (and thread) from you is some snide smear against the LGBT community.

Definitely seems like he looks for opportunities to do that.

 

[bankside]

Although I do NOT side with Springer, on anything, I take issue with these statements.

The Jewish people are an ethnicity because of their religion first. They would hardly exist as a separate group from their surrounding Mideastern neighbors if their religion had not commanded them to remain separate. And to suggest that modern Judaism isn't a significant cultural force among ethnic Jews, even when not practiced as a religion, seems too convenient.

You raise a point worth pondering, though I will say it is conventional within academia to consider jewishness as a religion and an ethnicity. Perhaps I would understand it better to consider it a religion and/or a culture. There are many recogniseable facets of this culture which have nothing to do with liturgy and probably more to do with the experience of diaspora over the last thousand years.

Religion doesn't so much turn "thoughtful men into lunatics" as often as it allows lunatics to displace thoughtful men. Be honest. Almost by definition, the wise are not fooled by the half-truths of extremism.

This displacement seems nigh on universal and complete!

By definition, the wise are not fooled by the extremists, but anyone wise really does seem marginalised. If I think of internationally-recognized religious figures, perhaps the Archbishops of Canterbury seem somewhat moderate...presiding over a dwindling church poised on the knife edge of schism on account of that moderation!

 

[blackbeltninja]

Truth is, they exist in all peoples with similar patterns of justification. We just find it easier to disdain the ones we have been conditioned to disdained. We hate the devils we know.

Surely we simply hate the people who make themselves known to us. I mean, they do paint an almighty target onto themselves, don't they?

-d-