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Mozilla boss vows to fire employee who blasted diversity efforts

Mozilla boss vows to fire employee who blasted diversity efforts

The anonymous person who recently attacked diversity standards at software provider Mozilla will be fired if revealed to be a company employee.

Chris Beard, CEO of Mozilla, announced at the staff daily briefing that Reddit user “Aoiyama” had gone too far in his online tirade against Christie Koehler, former Community Organizer for the company. Aoiyama likened Koehler to a “social justice bully”, claiming that “everybody in the company hated her.”

In a segment of the speech, the Reddit user wrote: “Frankly people are sick of her divisive stupidity. Everyone was glad to see the back of Christie Koehler. She was batsh*t insane and permanently offended at everything.

“When she and the rest of her blue-haired nose-pierced a**hole feminists are gone, the tech industry will breathe a sigh of relief.”

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