Open Code of Conduct

I'm really afraid and disgusted of this ignorant and provincial view of the world spreading over people I tought were rational.

Reverse racism does not exists. It is just racism.

Ummm, wouldn't 'misgendering' be using a pronoun which disagrees with someone's actual gender, as opposed to self-perceived gender?

Is it 'mistitling' to refer to someone who thinks that he's Napoleon Bonaparte as 'him' rather than 'his Imperial and Royal Majesty'?

> Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:

> ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’

So, the SCUM Manifesto would be welcome? Seems unwise to me.

What does not discriminating based upon technical ability look like? Random assignment of tasks without regard to whether or not someone can do them or do them well?

What's funny is that, this kind of PR never works. SJWs are very pissed off by the Open Code of Conduct move, they've been working for years on designing CoC (instead of, you know, writing actual code) and they see that as "culture appropriation" or whatever buzzy word. So in the end, they're just gonna alienate the ones that are fed up with this PC trend, while not convincing anyone to come back.

Person 1 did X(Racism) to person 2.

Therefore, Person 2 is justified to do X(Reversed Racism) to person 1.

And of course the blatant generalization, considering not everyone behaved like person 1.

Am I taking crazy pills?

This certainly won't backfire whatsoever.

Hahaha. I mean, this is the world we live in now?

I've always been puzzled by the concept of "reverse racism". As far as I can remember I've only heard this term in America (I've lived in 4 different countries before). I've always found that it was a perfect illustration of doublethink. I mean, people realize that "reverse racism" is actually racism right?

GitHub explains their adoption of it here: https://github.com/blog/2039-adopting-the-open-code-of-condu...

a) view racism as a zero-sum game

b) think anti-white bias is now more prevalent than anti-minority bias

[PDF] http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/sommerslab/documents/raceint...

But in the workplace or the community at large, "Unwelcome comments"about the abuse if your children or drug use are important.

It has to be ok to tell somebody something they don't want to hear.

If by "reverse racism" they mean "discriminating against members of racial groups which are usually not the victims of racism"... well, I really hope they've talked to their lawyers about that. In Canada a company which announced that they would protect or not protect their customers from racism based on their race would be up against the human rights commission in an instant.

It's worth noting that "privilege" comes from the Latin for "private law", which is to say a law that established a code of conduct for one class that was not applied to another. Typically, this took the form of exempting some people from the laws that bound everyone else.

In other words, the life under conditions of privilege was far freer and and more forgiving than it was for everyone else. The result was a set of advantages that made it easy for those with privilege to maintain it, and difficult for those without privilege to acquire it.

What's remarkable about this document is the way it illuminates the extraordinary number and range of ways in which privilege - and its attendant social ordering functions - can express itself. In other words, simply countering it, to say nothing of dismantling it, is a non-trivial task.

Understanding privilege in this way also makes it easy to see why the very concept of "reverse racism" is so ridiculous. In essence, it's based on a profound misunderstanding of what racism is in the first place. It is not simply a matter of treating different people differently. It is about embedding race in a system of privilege, which is something you cannot do unless you have privilege in the first place (obviously, allowing those without privilege to define its benefits would defeat the whole purpose). In other words, racism is about propagating a deeply established social hierarchy of dominance and submission that is based on race. To the extent that "reverse racism" seeks to limit the power of these structures, it's a good thing. In any case, the problem is the continued existence of the unjust power structure, and not the fact that people pay attention to who does and does not receive its protection.

In Western countries, privilege has generally meant straight, white, men, from well-off backgrounds making life much easier for each other while making it much more difficult for everyone else. Sure, there are exceptions. But they're few and far between, with their scarcity only serving to underscore the general rule. And while plenty of individuals who are a part of this class may find the structure distasteful, that's had limited effect on the structure itself, which remains largely dominant to this day.

In any case, it's not going to dismantle itself, so it's up to the people who do want to do something about it to actually do something about it. Saying "we're not going to defend it, and given a choice, we're going to rule against it" is a good example.

That may be very unsettling for some people, but understand this: if you're getting grief the problem is probably not that you're a straight, white guy. More likely, the problem is that you're treating other people like garbage in more ways than you can even imagine, and doing so habitually because your privilege allows you to get away with it.

And yes, a place that explicitly says "your privilege is not respected here" can be a tricky one for some people to navigate. If you're not much of a jerk to begin with, it isn't a big deal. But if you're a deep-fried, hard-boiled asshole who cannot even imagine how to treat others with a suitable measure of civility and respect, yes, you're going to suffer.

I find this introduces needless politics where they don't belong. I also don't subscribe to the idea that sexism and racism can only happen if the victim is of the correct gender or race. For those reasons, I've closed my private repos and no longer financially support Github.