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It's almost entirely contained in the javascript community.

> It's almost entirely contained in the javascript community.

No it's not. Did you forget about the lambda conf already? it's everywhere in the Tech community, which is less and less about tech, and more and more about pushing some unrelated political drivel.

And Ruby, and Python. Don't forget the guy that got fired from his job for making a "forking" joke at PyCon.

Ruby? Not as far as I know. Matz rejected the Contributor Covenant, and instated the PostgreSQL CoC. Maybe you meant Ruby On Rails? They have adopted the Contributor Covenant.

Some people appear to feel that any code of conduct is evidence of toxic SJW takeover.

Well, it is. They're the ones that push them through. It's classic bureaucratic maneuvering: it gives you a political hammer from which you can then further cement a position of authority by leveraging the threat of official censure.

See also the expansion of Title IX and the resulting chill on campus speech.

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