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OKCupid CEO guilty of anti gay donation
Topic Started: Apr 8 2014, 11:02 AM (88 Views)
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On March 31st, users of the dating website OkCupid.com were greeted with a notice informing them that because Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich donated to a pro-traditional marriage campaign, users of Mozilla's Firefox web browser were banned from the OkCupid website. But now it has come to light that the CEO of OkCupid also made a political donation offensive to gay activists.

According to records unearthed by Mother Jones, OkCupid CEO Sam Yagan donated to a politician that was a very staunch supporter of issues reviled by gay activists. In 2004, Yagan donated $500 to his local Congressman, Chris Cannon (R-UT). Cannon was a conservative who voted for a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, voted against a ban preventing employers firing employees based on their sexual preference, voted to prohibit gays from adopting children, and on a host of other issues voted against the progressive gay agenda.

Author Hannah Levintova notes that Yagan also donated to Barack Obama in 2007 and 2008, so it's "quite possible that Yagan's politics have changed since 2004." However, Obama opposed same-sex marriage during that campaign, just like Eich and Cannon.

Still, even MJ points out that since Yagan did something nearly the same as Mozilla's Eich, the OkCupid Firefox ban seems like a "PR stunt" as opposed to any "impassioned act of protest."
Brendan Eich held his CEO position in Mozilla, a company he co-founded, for less than a week before progressive activists destroyed his career by making his company pressure him to quit. The dating website OkCupid was one of those groups lending its assistance to the hit squad aligned against Mozilla.

OkCupid displayed message on the screens of Firefox users informing them that since Brendan Eich donated $1,000 to a pro-traditional marriage campaign in 2008, users of his web browser were not welcome at the dating website.
Gay activists celebrated the efforts of OkCupid to destroy Brendan Eich because of his religious and political views--ideas that he never imposed on his company, Mozilla.

After OkCupid did its part to destroy Eich, the dating site posted a new message trumpeting the scalp it took, saying, "We are pleased that OkCupid’s boycott has brought tremendous awareness to the critical matter of equal rights for all partnerships."


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/08/OkCupid-s-CEO-Also-Made-an-Anti-Gay-Campaign-Donation

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where's the outrage[?]
I'm sure you people will manufacture some. After all, that's what you paranoid, misinformed fascists who read Breitbart specialize in, isn't it?
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It's at the point now that there's little use in trusting anyone. Those who scream the loudest in protest against something or someone else far too often have much to hide on their own.

I tend to pay little attention to anything I read, see, or hear in the media.
Edited by Tybee, Apr 8 2014, 11:09 AM.
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Imagine spending your hard-earned money on trying to prevent two people from getting married. So mean and petty they deserve to be hauled out and publicly chastised. How naive of them to believe they were going to "win" and get a standing ovation; equal rights always wins... eventually.
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Gay columnist Andrew Sullivan is getting pummeled by fans for standing against the actions of gay activists who forced Mozilla to dump its new CEO, Brendan Eich. Sullivan is undaunted, however, saying that gay activists are creating a civil rights movement built on hate – not one advocating toleration.
In an April 6 blog post, Sullivan delved even deeper into the "illiberal" intolerance he saw from gay activists over the Mozilla/Eich incident.
Even as Sullivan reiterated that he thinks the right has engaged in this sort of fascist-like attack on freedom and a civil society, he is even more insistent that his compatriots in the gay rights movement have devolved into the same sort of hate. The attack on Eich, Sullivan feels, is a prime example.
Sullivan insists that too many in the gay community and those that support them are avoiding the "ugly truth" of what really happened to the CEO.
"Brendan Eich was regarded as someone whose political beliefs and activities rendered him unsuitable for his job," Sullivan said. He then noted that, if this had happened in similar circumstances, it would actually be illegal, breaking California's workplace employment laws that prevent employers from firing people based on their political ideology.
The Daily Dish blogger did understand that, because Eich was upper management, the law didn't exactly apply to his situation. But Sullivan did feel that Eich's ouster violated the spirit of that law.

Sullivan also made a very important and prescient point on a "civil society."

"The ability to work alongside or for people with whom we have a deep political disagreement is not a minor issue in a liberal society," Sullivan wrote. "It is a core foundation of toleration. We either develop the ability to tolerate those with whom we deeply disagree, or liberal society is basically impossible. Civil conversation becomes culture war; arguments and reason cede to emotion and anger."

The blogger also pointed out that gay activists who think "with theological certainty" that people who are against same-sex marriage aren't just against same-sex marriage but are evil and actually hate gays are acting exactly like those on the opposite end of the spectrum who actually do feel that being gay makes someone evil.

And one ugly manifestation of absolute certainty in near-theological movements is their approach to dissidents. Dissidents in these absolutist groups are outlawed, condescended to, pressured, bullied, lied about, trashed, slandered, and distorted out of any recognition. In this case, a geeky genius who invented Javascript and who had pledged total inclusivity in the workplace instantly became the equivalent of a Grand Master in the Ku Klux Klan. And yes, that analogy was--amazingly--everywhere! The actual, complicated, flawed human being was erased by thousands who never knew him but knew enough to hate him. Because that’s all they need to know. No space was really given for meaningful dialogue; and, most importantly, no mercy was given without total public repentance.

Sullivan then reminded his readers that Brendan Eich literally pleaded with everyone to give him a chance to prove that he didn't hate gays. But the gay activists refused to give him a fair hearing.

This prompted Sullivan to slam the direction the gay rights movement has taken.

A civil rights movement without toleration is not a civil rights movement; it is a cultural campaign to expunge and destroy its opponents. A moral movement without mercy is not moral; it is, when push comes to shove, cruel.
He wrapped up his piece by warning his fans not to become the sort of "hateful mob" they claim to be fighting.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/04/07/Andrew-Sullivan-Gay-Activists-Creating-Civil-Rights-Movement-Without-Toleration
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Sullivan is one of the most duplicitous pieces of garbage ever. How he can even hold his head up in public is beyond me.
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You know Sullivan (a two-faced opportunist) is in the wrong when he's giving ammo to a garbage, paranoid fascist site like Breitbart.
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a garbage, paranoid fascist site like Breitbart


You are entitled to your opinion, just as I am mine. Do I agree with everything there no, but I like reading diverse sites.
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