astanm

As long as these views aren't thrashed out in the collaborative spaces to which the CoC applies, it doesn't really matter.

(As a personal preference, I'd rather not know the political views, legitimate or otherwise, of people I work with. It's not relevant.)

If someone is posting along the lines of "send them all to the death camps" etc. on the mailing lists or discussion boards, for any group, that would be covered under the other items in the Ruby CoC, where participants are expected not to harass or disparage.

Also it would be very off-topic for a programming language forum.

The latter would be off-topic for a programming language discussion forum, certainly. But working with others that happen to hold differing views on that topic? Not a problem.

It would be unreasonable to expect everyone to have the same perspective on political issues.

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.

This, from the Ruby CoC, is key:

> Participants are expected to be tolerant of opposing views.

If you can't tolerate that others will have different perspectives to you then it means you're likely to be a very difficult and inflexible person to work with.