A very mealy-mouthed effort in the
Schumpeter blog at The Economist to excuse the scandalous bullying of Eich to leave Mozilla, I think. But I do recommend
one of the comments following:
It's the new phenomenon of homophobophobia, some sort of weird
overcorrection for past wrongs. It's like intolerance is such a
reprehensible thing that we must be intolerant of it. The truly
worrisome thing is that he did nothing overtly intolerant. He was
merely supporting something that was, until just a year or so ago, felt
by the majority of Americans. Now that that has switched over to a
minority, the new majority, empowered by a new standard of political
correctness, feels free to persecute the former majority.
Homophobophobia. I like it.
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