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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: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday April 10 2017, @07:38PM
I don't promote discrimination and I understand not only the emotional but logical need to make our system more agnostic to individuality, because if it isn't, then it is no better than living in the jungle [youtube.com], but we have a flaw in the system that it is designed to be gamed and misused. We must eliminate this feature where more abusive you are, and better at being a psychopath, your path to success is written. Otherwise we can never be sure we are right and/or settle any dispute forever.
CoC is designed to be abused. It doesn't come with a list of words. It doesn't promote fixing a problem. If it were law it would be laughed at the court house. But it acts as a law because it will punish you but also without acknowledging that you are being punished. The person who will get caught [theguardian.com] will have no idea what could have been done to avoid it and any next person will only learn how to avoid same situation. The problem remains. Because it serves only one purpose: promote its pushers and give them a leverage to remove someone they don't like.
What study has been done to see which behavior exactly is so caustic, even if we assume that the presence of caustic environment is a reality? Have we decided (not settled) on what exactly causes that behavior? No and no. CoC is how you divert and hide your political maneuvers.