>>>How about this from Michael Jordan?
>>>
>>>

>>>"We cannot and must not tolerate discrimination at any level."---Michael Jordan
>>>

>>>
>>>But in the book Nothing Else Matters:
>>>
>>>

>>>"You f@%^$ flaming f@%^$," Jordan exploded. "You don't get a call on that little touch foul, you f@%^$ f@%^$.
>>>You don't bring that f@%^$y shit in here. Get your ass back and play, you f@%^$."
>>>

>>>
>>>That's 4 gay slurs.
>>
>>Conceivable that his attitudes have changed over the years? He grew up?
>>
>>Tamar
>
>Brendan Eich apparently doesn't get that luxury.

How long in between the two quotes from Jordan? How long since Eich gave the money until the current episode? (I don't know the answer in either case.)

FWIW, there are a number of companies I won't do business with because of the way they behave in the marketplace or the way their owners choose to spend their money. (Think Chick-Fil-A and Hobby Lobby in that latter group, for example.) Not only is that my right, but I'd have thought it's exactly what you'd approve of. And, of course, there are other people whose views differ from mine, and who might choose to direct their business to those companies exactly for the same reasons. (If there were a CostCo close enough to me to be usable, I'd be a member. CVS will be getting more of my business because of their decision to stop selling cigarettes.)

Now, if enough people feel as I do to have an impact on profits, then those companies I'm personally boycotting well might re-examine their behavior. (In the two cases I cited, I see no reason to think that would happen even if it put them out of business, but that's irrelevant to my behavior.)

I spend a large chunk of my childhood without iceberg lettuce and green grapes because my parents supported the efforts of farm workers to unionize. Boycotts can be quite effective.

Tamar