Mozilla has had some difficulty with its image as an accepting and diversity-fostering workplace recently, but they remain committed to making their company the kind of place where everyone is welcome—except those who would make others feel unwelcome, of course.
Mozilla CEO Chris Baird called out Reddit user aoiyama by (screen)name in a meeting for making comments about Christie Koehler, the community organizer who recently left the company. You can read aoiyama’s words for yourself, but we’ve screencapped them here for posterity:
And these comments followed a post by aoiyama in the Men’s Rights subreddit, wherein he asked for help fighting discrimination, because it wasn’t fair that only women could snag some free tickets to a tech conference:
Because surely, with aoiyama’s attitude, women are just as accepted as men in tech and don’t need any programs to help them succeed. This has never been more relevant:
Now Baird is seeking to figure out who at Mozilla aoiyama is and get rid of him—or get him to leave the big, mean “social justice bullying” company of their own accord if he’s so oppressed (transcript via Engadget):
It’s been brought to our attention that there’s been anonymous postings to Reddit under the handle aoiyama that crossed a line from criticism to hate speech. There’s a lot to suggest that they’re a Mozillian [an employee]. Specifically, when I’m talking about crossing the line from criticism to hate speech, I’m talking about when you start saying that ‘someone’s kind doesn’t belong here and we’ll all be happy when they’re gone.’ If that’s not hate speech, it’s pretty damn close and we’re not going to walk that line as Mozilla. So if, and when, we identify who this person is and if they are an employee, they will be fired. Either way, they are not welcome to continue to participate in the Mozilla project, so if you cross that line, I’m asking you now: please leave, because you’re not welcome.
If the tech industry really has become so horrible to be a part of because of diversity initiatives, there’s the door, dude. Don’t let it hit you on the way out.
(via Engadget)
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