Good grief.
Via Slate:
Is Brendan Eich as bad as Donald Sterling? If Sterling deserves to lose his team for being a racist—as the NBA has just affirmed — did Eich deserve to lose his job for opposing gay marriage?
Lots of bloggers think so. They say Eich’s defenders are hypocrites to denounce Sterling. Here’s the argument from David Badash:
Brendan Eich made a very public gesture to be anti-gay. Conservatives insist money is speech. Eich spoke $1000 worth of anti-gay words that are part of the public record, and directly supported ugly efforts to marginalize and disparage gay people. … If you think Brendan Eich should still be the CEO of Mozilla, or should not have been the subject of scorn and upset, then you have to support Donald Sterling.
And from Tim Peacock:
Why does Eich get a free pass on his anti-minority statements while Sterling receives the third degree for equally repulsive behavior? Both men lead companies where no clear evidence of employee harm exists despite the potential for that harm to occur based on the leader’s stated animus toward a specific minority group.