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| Eich |
I was going to write about this but John Aravosis on
Americablog articulated this point so well that I will post a little of what he said instead:
It was only a few weeks ago that America was lecturing the gay
community about its intolerance for intolerance, for objecting to a
bigot (in fact, an anti-gay activist, Brendan Eich) running a major American corporation (in this case, the Mozilla Foundation).
Republicans, including gay conservatives, were particularly upset
that anyone would judge a man’s job performance, especially the man
running a company, by his personal animus towards minorities, many of
whom would be his own employees. So long as he didn’t discriminate
against his own employees, he was free to be a bigot, they told us.
Now, they’re all eating crow.
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| Sterling |
Today, even conservatives are saying (on CNN) that the NBA simply
must investigate whether the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
basketball team, Donald Sterling, made racist remarks to his girlfriend, who is black and Mexican.
. . . It was only a hypothetical less than a month ago – the question,
“what if” the guy running the company were a racist, or an anti-Semite? . . . No one is running to Donald Sterling’s defense (though Cliven Bundy, another forgotten “free speech hero,”
has yet to weigh in). No one is defending America’s “proud tradition”
of defending the employment prospects of avowed racists. Nor should
they. And even if, as Sterling alleges, the audio is a fake, America’s
reaction to the audio was authentic, and universally critical.
Aravosis raises some good points and they deserve a lot more thought and discussion.
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