Even if Prop 8 was directly responsible for people like me killing themselves (and it's NOT, and you know it), that doesn't somehow make someone donating to a cause they believe in a murderer. This is literally the laziest argument you can possibly use to support this criticism.

I don't personally believe Prop 8 was a good thing, but maybe he had compelling reasons to donate. You won't know unless you ask him. I don't particularly care what his reasons were, because it's HIS MONEY.

I mean, if you think somehow boycotting Mozilla and trashing them in public will help advance some social cause you believe in, then go for it. I bet if you looked through the donations made by every Google employee you'd find hundreds, if not thousands of them donated to the campaign for Prop 8. Same goes for Apple, and Microsoft, and pretty much any big company - even in the valley.

Being able to ignore political disagreements - even big ones - in favor of making progress in some other field is the mark of being an adult, and it's what our civilization is built on. If we refused to have contact with people who didn't exactly conform to our worldviews, and refused to cooperate with them, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING would get done in this country. You need only look at the utter impotence of the US Senate and House to see an example of this in action.

Do you think the world would have benefited if Alan Turing had refused to work with the research establishment because some of his colleagues were homophobes? Do you think the world would have benefited if Turing had been unable to get work because the establishment considered his personal views unacceptable? That's the kind of behavior you're advocating here: Blatant, unflinching intolerance in both directions.

>that doesn't somehow make someone donating to a cause they believe in a murderer.

Woah woah slow the fuck down. That is not what I said. I said that supporting the actions of organization X which does Y with your direct financial contribution means that you have supported Y in some way, however small.

That applies regardless of who you are. It doesn't matter that Mozilla might be a great place to work - it puts him in the same company as the guy that runs Chik-Fil-A. Giving money to a company that does bad things means you have supported those bad things. Doesn't particularly matter whether you like this fact or not, because it's true.

I'd argue even more that it applies when you're the CEO of a large company. $hate_organization can now legitimately say that this Mozilla guy supports them. Great press right!?

>I mean, if you think somehow boycotting Mozilla and trashing them in public will help advance some social cause you believe in, then go for it.

Which I also didn't say or advocate.

>That's the kind of behavior you're advocating here: Blatant, unflinching intolerance in both directions.

Which.. I also didn't say or advocate.

Please read what I actually said and not what you want me to have said. I didn't advocate boycotting Mozilla, and I drew no conclusions other than "This is uncool, and being related to the company in such a position now drags their name into it, and it makes perfect logical sense that a company may choose to distance themselves from a person in such a case"

Roughly half of your post is a damn lie.

And another thing, if you don't think that being told by evangelicals and conservatives and other hate groups that you are wrong and terrible and evil all the time doesn't contribute to suicide, you're out of your damn mind. I can't tell you exactly what message at what time might cause someone to snap, but I can very well say that every one contributes somehow.