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CEO of Brave rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros (lemm.ee)
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The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board...

Of course I can't comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can't figure out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Is this dude schizophrenic or something? What the fuck does he mean "Irish only apply"?

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

He's got a "white guys are persecuted" complex because people call him out for abusing gays, trans people, women and minorities. He's comparing that to the not-very-effective anti-Irish prejudice in the 19th century. Unlike the murderous attacks on Black Americans and Chinese immigrants, it was never ensrined in law and was largely ignored: Irish people could vote, marry who they wanted to, own property, run businesses and hold political office. The main sources of anti-Irish animusat the time were the Know Nothing party and its friends in the KKK. Both hated the Irish for being Catholic.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Historically Irish people were hated in the US and you would often find “No Irish” on job postings

It is used as a substitute for minority in the CEO’s context as a way to say Mozilla allowed minorities to apply for jobs

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

The irony that he is mad about woke when irish people were also shit fury on.