Agreed! My point is that non-white non-cisgendered non-male people are already doing this in order to exist in the workplace! Let's make the world more comfortable for everyone and stop excluding people because you don't want to lose your boys club.
I'm struggling to see how the "Don't"s in the article are associated with a particular orientation, race or sex... are you suggesting that non-white non-cisgendered non-male people can't cope with a more casual tone? Why? In my experience non-"white" people are just as casual or formal as "white" people ("white" is such a weirdly American concept, here in the UK we wouldn't want to group the Poles and the French together).
Equally annoying is when people attempt to define 'African-American' as though it was one homogeneous entity of experience. The experiences and struggles of a young black man in NYC is vastly different from the struggles of a young black man in rural Alabama.
That being said, "white" is also ambiguous in other ways. It's generally not meant to be strictly speaking about skin color, since people with fair skin from certain parts of the middle east, for example, would not necessarily be considered to be white in this context.
No they aren’t. Non-white people aren’t avoiding the use of emojis in code review and they certainly aren’t against telling someone an idea is bad.
You never get a chance to even see what it's like for everyone else who is forced to play on regular mode, or worse.