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Rafael Avila de Espindola, one of the top contributors to the LLVM compiler toolset, has cut ties with the open source project over what he perceives as code of conduct hypocrisy and support for ethnic favoritism. In a message posted to the LLVM mailing list, de Espindola said he was leaving immediately and cited changes in the community.
LLVM project founder, Chris Lattner responded; "I applaud Rafael for standing by his personal principles, this must have been a hard decision." Lattner also insisted that "it is critical to the long term health of the project that we preserve an inclusive community."
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday May 06 2018, @03:44AM
Those points are sufficiently elastic that virtually anything that someone regards as common courtesy are violent assault or similar to someone else. For starters, "holding a door open for the person behind you" is "non-contact rape" to some SJWs. So you've gone from "common courtesy" to "rape" in a single jump, and both describe the same action. By not defining, or even giving examples, of what permitted and non-permitted behaviour is, all the above list is doing is giving the SJWs a hitlist that they can apply to anyone they don't like.
For another, unrelated, example, read the constitution of the Soviet Union. It's actually very reasonable, in some cases better than the US one. However, would you rather live in the US or under Stalin and the Soviet constitution? It's all a matter of interpretation.