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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: 3, Informative) by jmorris on Monday April 10 2017, @04:30PM (3 children)
It is called Entryism. I'd recommend everyone go get Vox Day's SJWs Always Lie and study your enemy. At the minimum get the free chapter he has out for free on what do the day the rage mob picks you for the day's festivities. People who react close to his recommendations generally keep their jobs while those who didn't normally do not. Spoiler: Apologizing and trying to appease the mob is the losing move btw. Read the book to learn the actual tactical failure that costs you your job and how to increase your odds.
They infect every organization the second it becomes large enough to have spare resources for the locust to consume, and consume they will unless you are aware of the threat and take active measures to prevent them ever getting established in your organization. Freedesktop.org long since aggregated enough projects and attracted enough corporate cash to make itself a juicy target. That is the only useful thing a CoC is good for, it tells the observant that an organization has been seized. It is no longer focused on developing Free Software, it is devoted to Social Justice as the original goal of the organization becomes increasingly impossible to carry out.
History records no organization being cleansed of this infection, fortunately Free Software is an exceptional product in that it is not capital intensive at all. Forking is in fact how Freedesktop.org itself came into being so they can't really object to having it done again to them. The time to flee is now, the incompetence[1] of freedesktop.org has been obvious for years and things can't possibly improve as a SJW converged organization.
I said this on the last CoC related thread but it bears repeating. It isn't the actual contents of the CoC that is the red flag to RUN. Most are bland "everybody be nice" corporate drone stuff. Well of, for Free Software peeps that alone should be bad news, we don't want to be generic cubedwellers, amiright? Especially do not want corporate drones telling us the terms under which they will accept gifts. Anyway.... Is it the fact the leadership of the organization have become the sort who will waste valuable time letting a few snowflakes dominate the conversation long enough to push through a CoC. And the actual words are meaningless, again as we saw in the last thread about a CoC, the person was sacked even though he didn't violate the letter of the CoC but because the SJWs were in charge and the actual rules were to basically impose a college safe space. Bottom line, leadership has lost focus and software isn't their prime function anymore. RUN!
Imagine 1 person who got promoted because of a special allowance.
Yup, but it is worse than you imagine. It is designed this way, to create large numbers of people who understand their position utterly depends on supporting the system that put them where they are. Think about it from a systems view. Women in general do not want to do IT (because their sperg spectrum rate is a fraction of the male rate but expand the concept beyond IT and ignore that) for reasons not well understood. Same for 'minorities' and for purposes of debate assume some might actually be prejudiced behavior, doesn't matter. All that matters is the hiring pool for women and minorities is small and once you get a CoC or big enough for the EEOC to mandate quotas you MUST hire a fairly fixed percentage. Do the math people.
Let us use a simplistic quality metric for illustration. A one to ten scale of skill required for a job. You have a position that needs a skill level 5 and you need a dozen employees. Because of the fierce competition for diversity hires you will not five nearly enough level 5 women and minorities (remember Asian men are not minorities for EO purposes) so you settle for 3 or 4, at best. No you won't find a single 5 since they are working at level 6 or 7 somewhere, perhaps already in your organization and aren't interested in a pay cut. Most people do not understand the math problem, they only see that the women and minorities they have to work with are always incompetent and they are having to carry their dead weight. And the seething begins the day they make that realization, until they understand the math, then they can correctly focus the rage.
And the women and minorities know the situation too, even the ones who can DoubleThink it away from their daily life, because The Party will make sure of it; since that knowledge is the 100% sure fire way to make them solid Blue voters. Nothing like knowing your job absolutely depends on Affirmative Action remaining a mandate to assure loyalty.
[1] Seriously. When you find crap broken for years on end during endless rewrite, it is Freedesktop.org or RH/Pottering behind it 90% of the time.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday April 10 2017, @07:48PM
Unfortunately, SJW movement stems from feminist hijacking of all politically correct discourse. The dominant narrative is that if you like equality, then you are by default a feminist, and if you disagree you are too stupid/driven by (racism/homophobia/xenophobia/islamophobia/and basically anything that is politically incorrect) to know anything better. The death of political correctness, if it happens indeed, will only be seen on these hijackers by the history. So it is almost impossible task to pick up the fallen torch until the wind stops blowing so much against it.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday April 10 2017, @10:28PM (1 child)
I'd recommend everyone go get Vox Day's
Never have I seen a review more negative than a recommendation by jmorris.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:20PM
Funny, that's exactly why I just read it. It confirmed everything I already knew (mostly it's a collection of truisms) until the author started lionising the paedophile-supporting Catholic church for their capacity to resist infiltration. Still, it's a an otherwise worthwhile and easy read. 4/5 and the free chapter is here. [voxday.net]
Every genuine social liberal should read it, so that it's clear who the real oppressors are and how we stop their incessant bullying.