Not adding a fairly standard CoC resulted in death threats and and people attempting to take down PolyMC and prevent people from using it and it from keeping up development.
Talk about an overreaction.
Talk about an overreaction.
The people acting like that should be excluded.
However that isn’t what you originally said, which was that CoCs typically exclude people on the basis of beliefs or biology. What I have been trying to work out is who and what is being excluded, and by whom?
If you are going to make that claim, you have to be able to provide concrete examples, as it’s a fairly significant issue that needs to be addressed.
I was trying to explain what I saw in my experience in their discord community. I don't remember the rules, or any specific interactions, it was just a overall leftist dog-whistling aura of if you are not like us you don't belong here. I never encountered anyone who was not friendly and accommodating, so while the server made me feel uncomfortable I was and remain ostentatiously a member because of being a big fan of the software product which I have used extensively for about 7 months now.
Here’s the thing, many projects have adopted CoCs over the last few years because in the absence of specific documents saying “don’t be racist, sexist, antisemitic, transphobic, homophobic, …” there were people doing just that, and then saying it wasn’t against the rules.
There a significant problem in which people have been trying to claim that racism, sexism, antisemitism, transphobia, homophobia, etc are a core part of their religion or political beliefs, and so must be allowed. These same groups make claims like giving gay or trans people the same rights as non-gay or non-trans people is somehow giving those people privileges.
The reason they make those claims is solely to do a very classic trick employed by white supremacists, which is to claim that by not allowing them to dehumanize others you are discriminating against them.
It’s a generally common refrain used by any group discriminating against any other group - from neonazis against Jews, Israelis vs Palestinians, to the jim Crow states against black people in the south. In all cases the group that wishes to discriminate claims that being denied the right to discriminate is itself discrimination.