[stillkicking]

Because a code of conduct is just a foot in the door. It provides a pretense for people to seize power and start policing others in the community.

That would be only one objection, but as always happens, the rules are not actually what is written, as the OP rightly pointed out.

Another recent example was the Rod Vagg drama in node.js... he became the target of ire for tweeting an article about Neurodiversity and Free Speech. Does that sound like something that should go against any code of conduct that aims to be more welcoming and create diversity? Of course not, unless you subscribe to Social Justice, where everything is a dogwhistle and an opportunity to name and shame others.

The person who was leading this charge was then discovered to have a tirade filled twitter stream full of spiteful and hateful language aimed at white people and men. Which apparently did not violate any CoC.

The hypocrisy is obvious to anyone who digs past the surface, and the fact that well-meaning bystanders are effortlessly recruited into defending this petty and destructive behavior is what makes it so pernicious.

[mylons]

the person you're referencing to with the RAMPANT misandry on their twitter feed is just intolerable and tiring.

[sanxiyn]

If so, rvagg should be criticized for those tweets, not for a reasonable article on neurodiversity.

[Khaine]

You misunderstand rvagg didn't have tweets containing misandry. The person who was leading the charge against him did.

[mylons]

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