I don't even understand the point of this part:<p>>Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:<p>> ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’<p>> Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you”<p>> Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts<p>> Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial<p>> Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions<p>It's one of the only CoC I've ever read that specifically condones some forms of harassment. No harassment should be acceptable. I've already switched to gitlab and I'm about to go through the list of projects that use this CoC and make sure I don't use their products anymore.
I'm more a fan of the No Code of Conduct (not to be confused with the awful action movie of the same name):<p><a href="https://github.com/domgetter/NCoC" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/domgetter/NCoC</a><p>..at least when it comes to the hacker ethos, which is something, IMO, we should all strive for. Think of it as the WTFPL of the "thou shalt not" world.<p>More to the point, I really fail to understand why documents like the one Github is working on are necessary. Most FOSS projects I'm aware of are quite adept at dismissing dickery in all its forms, rather than adopting a futile (and controversial, and agenda-driven) approach to defining it.<p>(Huh, someone already did something that's a lot more like the WTFPL. Predictably, it's rather acerbic: <a href="https://github.com/ciafwywcoc/ciafwywcoc/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ciafwywcoc/ciafwywcoc/blob/master/CODE_OF...</a>)
This is a bad faith (and/or woefully ignorant) argument about this code of conduct. Remarking that "reverse racism" is not harassment does not preclude minorities from being harassers. It does mean that having (for example) a group dedicated to black people's concerns and telling white people that they are not welcome (or that their opinions are lesser) is not harassment.
Given his support of GamerGate (<a href="http://matthewhopkinsnews.com/?cat=64" rel="nofollow">http://matthewhopkinsnews.com/?cat=64</a>) I don't really think his opinion on this matter are very fair and balanced...