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Several people have asked what the problems are with the code of conduct (CoC). Here's what I see:

1) Rules aren't specified. For example, nowhere does it say that it is against the rules to engaging in harassing behavior. Sure, it's strongly implied, but they don't explicitly state that. Nowhere is there a "don't do X" explicit rule.

2) Second, we have an ambiguous gatekeeper, the FreeBSD Code of Conduct Committee which gets to decide if you're allowed to participate or not. No reference on who these people are or the mechanics of the committee and how it makes such decisions. At least, link or describe who these people are and how they got to be in that position of power.

3) Speaking of a "few rules" and then following up with a massive list of 19 examples of harassment (including some very obscure social justice subjects like "dead names" and "deliberate misgendering") and stating the list is not exhaustive.

4) The existence of non-reciprocal rules and introduction of extraneous considerations.

Comments that reinforce systemic oppression related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.

First, this allows at least rhetorically for harassment that reinforces oppression that is not systemic. Second, now we've introduced an irrelevant factor (particularly, when people disagree on what is systemic!) into the decision making process. It shouldn't matter where harassment reinforces systemic oppression or not.

5) It's all just about harassment. Where's the rules on other obvious sorts of community misconduct like spamming and solicitation, posting off topic, deliberate sabotage of code or the community websites, etc? There is this very telling obsession with a particular sort of behavior.

TL;DR, we have a document which doesn't explicitly list the "few rules" you're supposed to follow, has an ambiguous enforcement organization, introduces irrelevant ideological considerations of the social justice flavor, and focuses on harassment rather than a more complete coverage of the ways that community interaction can go wrong. Smells like "SJW" to me.