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Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC

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Re: Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC

#13
What's with the recurring comments about corporations and businesses?

> Some people may have views that when expressed, may be harmful to the interest of particular groups of people like big corporations. This has to be taken into account.

> universally accepted corporate values

> That's California Core Corporate Policies in work

> For instance, members of board of directors of the big corporations are a protected class.

> Members of board of directors of the big corporations are a protected class because they financially contribute to the cause

Given the success of the pull requests, I can only assume that this is not a sockpuppet mocking the rules in question. Is it some kind of multi-layered joke?

Re: Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC

#15
post #2

This whole CoC thing is just stupid. Why do they need to write this kind of rules in the first place?

As a mod, it is helpful to have rules to point to when disciplining someone to prevent it from seeming arbitrary.

As an open-source contributor and professional developer, it tells me which projects to avoid entirely. Keep your state sponsored politics out of my hobby and profession.

Re: Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC

#17

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How about not telling offensive jokes, not making offensive assumptions, or just not being offensive. Its a programming language mailing list, what exactly is it about a sexist joke that you think belongs there?

Re: Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC

#18
post #8

This github links to a twitter thread about rationale for the change which mentions a sexist joke that was in the ruby mailing lists but doesn't link to it. I feel like I've read entire news articles about kinds of events like these where no one will actually show what was said. We're just supposed to agree it was really bad sight unseen. Here's my guess at the joke at the core of this for anyone wondering: http://bl…

I was trying to actually look for the sexist joke, couldn't find it anywhere.
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