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That would be covered under the next part of the Ruby CoC:

> Participants must ensure that their language and actions are free from personal attacks and disparaging remarks.

And anyway, rhetoric which advocates for killing groups of people would be very off-topic for a programming language discussion forum. Unlikely it would come up in conversation except for deliberate trolling.

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Holy moly, what kind of open source projects are y'all working on? I don't even understand how these topics could come up in a Pull Request. Are people writing and reviewing code in these projects?

Two ways I've seen it come up:

1. Someone posts something on twitter that someone else finds offensive

2. Someone proposes a CoC rule banning bigots from the community, which raises the question of "who defines who is a bigot"

TFA mentions a third way; a remark at a conference is overheard.

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