What’s wrong with gnome going sjw? I love how people bandy that acronym around as if it’s an insult to people who are sjw; if they’re sjw they’re more than likely proud to be as it is something of which to be proud - though they won’t be proud of *having to be* sjw
A side benefit of adding a code of conduct to your open source project is it eliminates the waste of time supporting users with views like yours.
But it also removes any support that users and developers with such views would provide, so it could backfire.
People who are against inclusive codes of conducts
Slacktivism at its best.
AFAIU, “SJW” was created as a pejorative term by those opposed to society being socially just (or at the very least, those opposed to what are now understood to be progressive attitudes) but the egg is doubly on their face as people who are deemed to be “SJW” take on this “insult” as a badge of honour. However, that doesn’t mean that they necessarily only carry out “SJW” actions because they want to be known as a “SJW”; they carry them out because it’s what is right and it’s what society needs. I don’t believe that (the overwhelming majority at any rate) of “SJW” carry out these actions for the purpose of seeking recognition as such. Whether or not they get labelled as “SJW” (mainly by regressives) is simply a by-product - mainly of regressives’ ignorance/arrogance/insert-other-failing-here...
Aha! Now we get to the (in)tolerance of the intolerant conundrum. Personally, I do actually prefer that all voices - and the nature of the vested interests behind them - (no matter how obscene) be heard in open debate so that they can all be challenged; otherwise unchallenged bubbles form and people who follow them like cults are less likely to at least question their virtues (or potentially lack thereof). For me that’s fundamentally democratic.
Got to start somewhere. I’ve derailed this thread enough but before I finish I’d just like to ask: to parallel with a code of conduct, I’m curious whether you disagree with a society having laws against carrying out threats, theft, murder etc.? In other words, why does something being online (which is now an intrinsic part of society) mean that our behaviour should be any less acceptable here than in the “offline” world?
AFAIK the term already existed before it became pejorative. The problem was that it was initially used within a pretty... intense echo chamber. You know, the "literal sociopath films themselves screaming angrily at other person for no apparent reason" type of activists. The whole "angry mob destroys innocent person's entire life because they were too lazy to check the facts first" thing that happened under the excuse of SJ on multiple occasions wasn't a good kind of PR for the SJW term, either.
code of conducts main function, rather than being "inclusive", seeks to filter away from merit (quality of code), and giving skincolor and gender more value than actual code. and thats why I feel it has no place in serious projects.
I dunno about #9. I always heard, "if it's yellow let it mellow"...
That's for people on septic in general, as well as only when the only people likely to see said yellow is family.
The only thing I'm going to comment on here is the title of that video (I haven't actually watched it) - I disagree with "cancelling" of anybody.
