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Michael Larabel over at Phoronix brings us news of a stealth Social Justice coup over at FreeDesktop.org:
X.Org, GStreamer, Wayland, LibreOffice, Mesa, VA-API, Harfbuzz, and SPICE are among the many projects hosted by FreeDesktop.org that now appear to be on a contributor covenant / code of conduct.
The Contributor Covenant for those unfamiliar with it is trying to promote a code of conduct for open-source projects that is trying to promote diversity and equality of contributors to libre software projects. From the covenant's website, "Part of this problem [of "free, libre, and open source projects suffer from a startling lack of diversity, with dramatically low representation by women, people of color, and other marginalized populations"] lies with the very structure of some projects: the use of insensitive language, thoughtless use of pronouns, assumptions of gender, and even sexualized or culturally insensitive names."
The covenant states in part that those contributing should use welcoming and inclusive language, be respectful to others, showing empathy towards others, avoid insulting comments, and avoid inappropriate conduct. For the most part, it's basically common sense.
Now it seems this Contributor Covenant is being forced onto all FreeDesktop.org-hosted projects.
(Score: 1) by AssCork on Monday April 10 2017, @02:10PM (2 children)
They don't even want the power, most often they just want attention.
"LOOK! We made them do something different!"
Then they move on.
Someone needs to start a Fight Club for SJWs "The first rule about equality is that you don't talk about equality"
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Monday April 10 2017, @04:55PM (1 child)
Then they move on.
Citation needed. Law #2 says "SJWs Always Double Down."
They never move on until the organization is destroyed, the demands increase. Once they have purged anyone who might possibly object they move on to consuming all of the resources of the original organization as they shift the focus of it to Social Justice. The CoC is only the opening gambit. Next the convention budget gets redirected from a booth and paying a couple of starving devels to attend to sponsoring a Women in Tech track. A bunch of fully trained Diversity Coordinators come onboard at $150K per diverse head. The mentoring programs kick off. And so on. Google can supply the hundreds of examples for you if you dig a bit. Intel has enough revenue to sustain a lot of these ticks on its back and still push the tech front forward, Freedesktop.org and GNOME not so much.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:01PM
That is a most awesome metaphor.
good list of typical abominations too