On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 3:59 PM Ramon Leon <ramon.leon@allresnet.com> wrote:
On 2019-09-11 1:07 p.m., Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
merely say that no one (including from those categories) will be harassed inside the Pharo community. Seems pretty reasonable, unless I'm missing something...
You're missing what some progressives consider harassment these days. [SNIP] This is language policing and a forcing of political ideology into what should not be political.
I think that even the "adoption" of such "Covenant CoC" introduces political ideology (and hence agenda) into this community that has been free from political debate (and so I expect it to be).
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/974038-why-the-linux-coc-is-bad/
Oh my.
It's sad to see that Pharo has jumped onto this PC bandwagon, it does not bode well for the community.
I believe this is more an undesired side effect of choosing a CoC from a template without caring about the details than the intention to have political correctness in the mailing list, because there's been flame wars and name calling here, but I don't recall anybody raising political ideology as an argument, or with the exception of a few cases, used political imagery or references in the ML, presentations, etc.. On a personal level I don't like this covenant in particular, and as was mentioned before it is not even a covenant since most of us just realized it existed and never before agreed to it. As a side note I believe mailing lists (or online communities in general) must not be safe spaces, and should only take action against concrete threats or completely off-topic comments/posts. Regards, -- Esteban A. Maringolo