OpenSUSE adopts a new code of conduct
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> It's interesting that the rather lengthy list of "attributes" does not include anything about political views or affiliations.
> That's a desirable and standard omission, considering one common political affiliation these days is defined largely by hatefulness towards many kinds of people. [...] It's perfectly fine for certain political affiliations to be unwelcome.
1. Make up new words to describe your political opponent's beliefs. 2. Categorize those words as "hate" and put them in the same category as sexual assault. 3. Ban your political opponents from participating in open source software.
Literally no one is fooled by this. The only political affiliation that should be unwelcome is the one that comes up with these schemes to shut down reasonable discussion because they know they would lose in an open marketplace of ideas.
the problem is that we haven't figured out how to best approach this problem.
the long term solution is better education, teach our kids tolerance, respect and courtesy. but until we realize that and implement it across the world, every other solution will be inadequate to some.