Why are identity politics even allowed to be discussed in an unrelated field (software development) in the first place? Seems it always just leads to people getting upset when you can just not talk about it as it’s really not related at all to my knowledge.
I can kinda agree here. In the open source community, identity politics should be especially irrelevant. The FOSS licences are explicitly designed in a way to not discriminate based on such factors like race, religion, gender, nationality, biological sex, political views, etc. However, from what I can gleam from the blog, it seems somehow related to the COC and maintainer behavior and a lack of transparency rather than “identity politics”. In what way, idk because the article doesn’t seem to specify any specific verifiable incident, at least from what I can tell. But I will say, that if it is a matter of the COC, that the COC is supposed to be a protection of the right for an individual to be able to express themselves in an environment that won’t prosecute them. So, in this regard it’d make sense to if say someone was being miss gendered maliciously, it’d likely violate the COC. In this regard, the right for one to express one’s self doesn’t give one the right to harass others because you don’t agree with how they’re expressing themself.
I can kinda agree here. In the open source community, identity politics should be especially irrelevant. The FOSS licences are explicitly designed in a way to not discriminate based on such factors like race, religion, gender, nationality, biological sex, political views, etc. However, from what I can gleam from the blog, it seems somehow related to the COC and maintainer behavior and a lack of transparency rather than “identity politics”. In what way, idk because the article doesn’t seem to specify any specific verifiable incident, at least from what I can tell. But I will say, that if it is a matter of the COC, that the COC is supposed to be a protection of the right for an individual to be able to express themselves in an environment that won’t prosecute them. So, in this regard it’d make sense to if say someone was being miss gendered maliciously, it’d likely violate the COC. In this regard, the right for one to express one’s self doesn’t give one the right to harass others because you don’t agree with how they’re expressing themself.