It's social progress and exactly what you expect to happen in a more progressive society when the racists and homophobes of the world start being looked down on and personally suffering for their beliefs. It's not rainbows and everybody holding hands, it's the racists and homophobes being forced to shut up and act like they aren't so their memes can't spread effectively. Their free to still try and spread those memes, but they're also free to suffer the consequences of that.
It's like this post was hand-crafted to give me an aneurysm or something D:
To elaborate, I believe firmly that technological advances and freedom of expression come hand in hand, and social progress
inevitably follows. The washing machine and women's rights, the industrialization of the world and the rise of the middle class - all the way to the internet, the ultimate idea network. I guess I should steer away from free speech (especially in the context of social activism as is the days) and save it for a progressive thread argument, but everything we are saying here now is possible because of the very same man being crucified. Anything that hampers the free transferal of information should be met with the utmost scrutiny, because one should never be certain that they are 100% correct. Mainstream beliefs change over time, and without the open dialogue to reason and work out which is the best position to adopt - deliberate and willful handicapping is the only thing achieved. America is not the world; the internet is.
The guy could of come out and said "I was wrong then. I have grown, and come to realise I put my money in something I have come to since view as a vile and repugnant belief, and I'm sorry." and odds would of been better all would of been fine. Most of the boycotters probably would of stopped boycotting and the board of directors hand wouldn't of been forced. Did he ever sincerely express regret and shame for his decision to donate to that cause?
You seriously overestimate the rationality of the social justice bandwagon. Once it starts, no one can stop it; much like corporations they operate entirely without the consent of the individuals acting within it. The colbert shitstorm and the countless cases like it are proof enough.
So if your neighbor donated to a Neo-Nazi group 6 years ago, you'd give him the same pass?
No, you wouldn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Hey, if I could come after the politicians who thought that was a swell idea, I would. But they're all dead. Also, we're people. Not government officials thinking they need to bomb the Russians back into the Stone Age with the best Nazi scientists could come up with.
This wasn't just weapons to bomb the Russians with, so much of the technology the world enjoys today as convenient truths has come from horrendous people like Nazis or U731. Godwin's silly, yet it goes without saying that one must point out Eich is not a nazi.