So it doesn't simply remove meritocracy to appease the far-left activists.
It specifically inserts language to appear them, reaffirm their world view.
Is it really necessary to create a safe space for fringe political activists to create substantive diversity? No.
It's also promoted by high-level Mozilla employees in response to a recent anti-meritocracy movement.
After what happened to FreeBSD's CoC you can hardly claim this is happening in a vacuum, it's a cause now.