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klys (maker of Silmarils)4/04/2014 7:16:18 pm PDT

re: #133 Killgore Trout

This?

The company seemed fine with his performance and qualifications. Left to their own devices they would have kept his as CEO. What I object to is the outside pressure to coerce the company. They never fired him, he stepped down on his own.
Let’s try a thought experiment: If he had kept his job and kept his politics in his private life as he’s done in the past. The company would continue to offer benefits to same sex employees and maintained an inclusive workplace. He was very good at what he does as CEO and makes the company an extra billion dollars a year. The company expands, hires more employees (many of them in same sex relationships) and offers more generous benefits. Employees pay for adoptions, have kids, send them to college. >BUT he maintains his private views and donates $1,000 every decade to an anti-gay political cause?
Does he do greater good being the head of a successful inclusive business? Are those gay employees better off with him gone?
My conclusion is this has done nothing to change his mind or his heart. It creates an atmosphere of fear and justifies the paranoia of conservatives about what a progressive future will be like. Coercing people’s behavior through fear and intimidation doesn’t usually work out well historically.

How about answering the question GeneJockey posed for you here?