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Journal by The Mighty Buzzard
In case you haven't heard, FreeBSD has a new code of conduct that's seemingly pulled straight from the shit-spewing face of a blue-haired intersectional feminist.
Me, I refuse to contribute to any coding project with a code of conduct designed to protect people of one political ideology from those who disagree with them. They're of course welcome to do what they like but they'll be doing it without my help in any way.
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The person who marries for money usually earns every penny of it.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @01:00AM (2 children)
In real life, something as simple as body language can be enough for me to immediately minimize contact. On a project, the work matters and the personalities less so unless it becomes a major problem. The LKML is a good example of this functioning well, it gets heated but personal attacks occur over work or someone being an asshole. Many, myself included, respect Linus for his no-nonsense bluntness. Has Linus ever been accused of bullying or abusing someone unfairly?
The SJW thing is different, self-styled paragons of moral virtue and self-styled victims work together to bully others. Should Brendan Eich [usatoday.com] have been pressured to resign? Was there any suggestion he'd ever behaved unprofessionally towards a colleague or were they just creating some nonsensical story about "harm" to punish him for exercising his personal political agency? What about someone's personal sex life? [theregister.co.uk] We already know the story. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by acid andy on Thursday February 22 2018, @01:23AM (1 child)
That Drupal thing was social injustice. Blatant discrimination against someone based upon their sexual preferences. The stupid part is I think it's because those sexual preferences weren't protected under the umbrella of Political Correctness which itself is a form of discrimination. Also, usually, what people do outside of their work should not be the business of their employers, which I think in a way echoes what you're saying about the work mattering more than the personalities. The bottom line is, it's when the personalities start to hinder the work or make people want to quit the work, that something probably needs to be done about it.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @10:43PM
Bravo, that more or less sums it up and very well articulated. Although I do make the point that these are cases of individuals being bullied out of positions by oppressors who present themselves as speaking out against oppression - no they are just bullies!