GitHub's new code of conduct "prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort," and therefore "will not act on complaints regarding ... ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’ ..." (x-post /r/KotakuInAction)

KngpinOfColonProduce · 2015-08-03T17:12:29+00:00

They also won't act on complaints regarding:

"Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts" - Enshrining the rule, it's not my job to educate you. And

"Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions" - So, it's ok to harass someone as long as the harassment is in service of GitHub's/SJWs' ideology.

goatsandbros · 2015-08-03T17:54:23+00:00

Why does a code repository need to have a social justice policy anyway?

Men13 · 2015-08-03T20:05:42+00:00

So you're saying we have to move our repositories to bitbucket? :/

andejoh · 2015-08-03T19:38:46+00:00

In my mind you can either be welcoming to all or you could not investigate reverse isms. You would think a coder would understand logic.

Spoonwood · 2015-08-03T20:12:14+00:00

At the very least, GitHub should get abandoned because of this. Possibly more.

redditorriot · 2015-08-03T17:15:57+00:00

That may be the most self-contradictory pile of absolute politically correct, fainting couch, hyper-victimhood-enabling, eggshells bullshit I have ever read, ever.

Saaafe spaaace.

baskandpurr · 2015-08-03T20:11:28+00:00

Basically, the tech world has been the interest of males. It was undesirable and boring to women but men built it anyway. Now that its a huge industry women want a piece but it must be on their terms. So women (those fragile, oppressed, waifs) are dictating the environment they want and men are making it happen. Business as usual really.

redditorriot · 2015-08-03T17:28:20+00:00

We’d like to thank the communities and projects that established code of conducts and diversity statements as our inspiration:

Geek Feminism

Lol.

rg57 · 2015-08-03T21:22:41+00:00

There is no "reverse" -ism. If it's sexism, then it's sexism, regardless of the target.

Also, there's no cisphobia, not because it's "reverse" but because we never chose the word "cis" for ourselves.

chafedinksmut · 2015-08-04T01:49:32+00:00

The Beginning of The Fall of Github.

gprime · 2015-08-03T19:37:45+00:00

Obviously I'm missing something, because I don't see mention of Github in this text. The way I'm reading this is as a model code of conduct the authors want other communities to adopt. Am I wrong?

Spoonwood · 2015-08-03T23:00:53+00:00

"We will not act on complaints regarding:

‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’"

Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination. Thus, it is a form of sexism. Consequently, the above implies that, if they are consistent, that if a woman sexually harasses a man, they won't act on it, because that would acknowledge the existence of sexism against men.

derpderpderpnig · 2015-08-03T20:32:39+00:00

I swear, the lure of feeling powerful draws so many nerds into things like this. I'll bet the guy who put this in place feels like such a big man.

MrStonedOne · 2015-08-03T20:47:19+00:00

https://github.com/todogroup/opencodeofconduct/pull/56

Working on this. It only took 16 closed issue reports and prs before they kept one of mine open.

https://github.com/todogroup/opencodeofconduct/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=author%3AMrStonedOne

I really liked this version: https://github.com/todogroup/opencodeofconduct/pull/53/files Removes all mention to welcoming, polite, etc

TheRedThrowAwayPill · 2015-08-03T23:45:26+00:00

This is rediculous !

GitHub might accidentally kill itself. For no good reason too

Funcuz · 2015-08-04T00:30:43+00:00

Well, I agree that there's no need to punish reverse racism but it's because there's no such thing. There's just racism. Same goes for sexism, ableism, purplism, goatfuckerism, etc. So why not simply think of things along those lines ... like people with basic human decency would do ?

ExpendableOne · 2015-08-04T13:57:20+00:00

"We need to make coding open and inclusive to everyone!!! Except white heterosexual men... because fuck those guys!"

-Tech feminism

XPostLinker · 2015-08-03T17:17:49+00:00

XPost Subreddit Link: /r/KotakuInAction

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3fmrcl/githubs_new_code_of_conduct_explicitly_refuses_to/

Fizics · 2015-08-04T00:13:39+00:00

There were no people like these insane SJW'S in my generation. At least I don't remember them, I'm pretty sure anyone making statements like Github would have been beaten on general principles.

I think SJW'S appeared because people stopped beating them up. Maybe you guys need to change your strategerie.

oscillating000 · 2015-08-04T04:04:01+00:00

So...what exactly is "reverse racism" or "reverse sexism"? It really doesn't make sense to me.

If being racist means that you dislike people because of their race, and being sexist means that you dislike someone because of their sex/gender, then what is the "reverse" of that? Not disliking someone because of their race or gender?

Criticization · 2015-08-04T13:57:51+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/1SLL7Lj.png

GitHub Blame does wonders.

TheDude41 · 2015-08-04T00:35:47+00:00

Chivalry is shit.

Create an alternative.

iambecomedownvote · 2015-08-03T21:58:01+00:00

Well, if we really wanted an end to Internet "safe spaces", we'd drown them in complaints. We should be reporting every single commit to github until they don't have the manpower to even review the complaints.

But we won't do that, because we believe (wrongly) that by maintaining the moral high ground, they'll eventually see that they were wrong and change their ways.

TheSeanis · 2015-08-04T04:14:04+00:00

What disgusts me most is they say this:

We strive to be a community that welcomes and supports people of all backgrounds and identities. This includes, but is not limited to members of any race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, colour, immigration status, social and economic class, educational level, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, size, family status, political belief, religion, and mental and physical ability.

And then they follow that well said, great statement with this:

Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:

‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’

Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you”

Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts

Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial

Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

I thought the original mission was all-encompassing. To go out of their way and specifically marginalize white people and men in a means to some how (and ineffectively) bolster any socio/economic status for a minority is absolutely appalling. I think it's fantastic that as a country or world society we are going the extra mile to help those who need help and support those who don't have the support they need but to actually go as far as to provide a room for prejudice toward white people or males is absolutely unacceptable.

Devvils · 2015-08-03T22:41:15+00:00

So if somebody complains about me, I say its 'reverse racism', case closed.

What a load of BS.

mcavvacm · 2015-08-04T08:09:37+00:00

Well there is no such thing as reverse racism, just plain ol' rasicm no matter your ethnicity, culture or personal beliefs.

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