Franklin and Marshall College student Daniel Pellegrino has a few thoughts on the forced resignation of the CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, Brendan Eich, and what it means for today’s American culture.

…The irony that those who preach diversity and inclusion attacked and shut down someone who disagreed with them should not be lost on us. However, it is no longer surprising when those who preach the need for equality contradict themselves so obviously: that’s just the way things work in our new progressive culture.

Cultural change is inherently neither good nor bad, but rather depends on the context of such change. This is the idea that liberals seem unable, or unwilling, to grasp. They see change–or, at least, the changes they favor–as good no matter what, and immediately view the state of affairs before the change occurred to be inherently inferior. Disney’s Frozen, and the reactions caused by the film, provides a good example of this trend. Frozen, among other things, is about a princess who does not need a man to save her from her problems as many previous Disney princesses did. Instead of revolving around romantic love, this movie was about the sisterly love between the two princesses. It was, at its core, meant by Disney to be a change from the normal Disney princess movies.

…Campus culture falls victim to this same trend. Being a liberal on campus is cool, which, in turn, makes being a college conservative lame. Liberal students or faculty members may preach equality for all, but will completely demonize those who disagree with their opinions. Liberal college students, with hipsters making up a great deal of this group, see the United States as continually trying to progress away from the “bigoted” ideology that is conservatism, and conservatives who are “on the wrong side of history” must have had something horrible happen to them as a child.

Republicans and conservatives are often criticized for their supposed fear of change, or of anything differing from what they are used to. But the real criticism that needs to occur should be against the liberal democrat idea that change is inherently good. It takes a very close-minded population to deem the history of a policy or belief to be not only be irrelevant, but also intrinsically evil.

Maybe the next time a person of influence, like Firefox’s former CEO, claims to be in favor of traditional marriage, the government will do the liberal’s bickering for them by overstepping their authority and forcing resignation themselves.