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		rjd on April 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO It's also about his ability to be a leader, if people lost the ability to respect him then he looses the ability to lead. That happened, he had to go.

spikels on April 4, 2014 [–]

Exactly! Humans are imperfect they lose "the ability to respect" for irrelevant reasons. Just like people couldn't believe in General Relativity because Einstein was Jewish.

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