Social conservatives are looking at what Google has done and, while acknowledging Google has every right to fire an employee, are concerned this outcome bodes poorly for anyone who thinks differently from the left.
There are shadows of Brendan Eich's ouster from Mozilla in this. Eich, Mozilla's then-chief executive, was driven from his job by outrage generated by technology reporters and pundits for having the audacity to give money to a traditional marriage campaign in California. No one questioned Eich's qualifications or abilities in technology. But Eich had the wrong values and thoughts, so he had to be fired. Silicon Valley has no place for social or intellectual conservatives. Or look at Silicon Valley's treatment of Peter Thiel, the gay billionaire, who has had the audacity to give legitimacy to President Trump. Thiel is now treated as a pariah in the tech press.
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