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  Why is no one asking how Brendan Eich feels about climate change, health care and marijuana before deciding if he is fit for the job?
It's because (correct me if I'm wrong) he hasn't spoken publicly about those causes, nor funded them.

Also, many wrongs don't make a right. It's a large and common fallacy to suggest there's anything incorrect about questioning his views on human rights simply because his views on (for example) the environment haven't been questioned.




You have no idea whether he's funded those causes. The only reason you know about Prop 8 is because the full list of donors to both sides was posted and everyone started looking at it. That's not typical for political donations. As far as I can tell, campaign donation recipients don't even have to publicly report donations of less than $1000 in California.

Of course from what I can tell, he also hasn't spoken publicly about the particular issue at hand, except to the extent that people asked him direct questions about it based on the abovementioned public list of donations.

I agree that the issue of climate change is a complete non-sequitur here, though.


His donation re Prop8 quite literally made international news, which is why it's on his Wikipedia article. It's probably the thing his name is known for outside tech circles.


Sure. What does that have to do with what I said?


You're implying it was a trivial thing no-one should reasonably be paying much attention to. It appears that, when put the test, this opinion turned out to be incorrect.


Uh... I think you're reading things into what I said that simply aren't there.

JohnBooty seems to think that the donation was a purposeful public statement, and in particular that the goal of the donation was to make said public statement, which is why there is no public information on any other political donations that Brendan might have made. I was pointing out that there is no information on other things simply because there hasn't been the same level of scrutiny, and that Brendan wasn't exactly going out of his way to speak out in public about his views on this issue (which is why 4 years passed between him making the donation and anyone noticing it). How you got from that to what you think I was "implying" is a bit beyond me.


  You have no idea whether he's funded those causes.
Pretty solid reason not to discuss his involvement in those causes, I'd say.


Indeed, but that's not the reasoning you used above.


I didn't express any opinion or reasoning at all about whether or not we should discuss his other views.

What I said is that even if you feel his non-Prop 8 views are (in your opinion) underexamined, that doesn't change the fact that it's correct to question his actions and views regarding Prop 8.




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