"Keep politics out of tech" is extremely disingenuous.
This CoC can be summarized as "don't be a jerk to other people". I can't even fathom how that's a controversial or political statement, but yet, here we are.
> This CoC can be summarized as "don't be a jerk to other people"
That is true if in your world saying or writing the following is being a jerk:
- hug, <3
- smoking is bad for you, you should eat healthier food, I think that food is disgusting
- men have higher testosterone levels
All of these violate their CoC.
If all they wanted is a CoC that says "don't be a jerk" then they would have put that into their CoC and not what's in it currently, like many other projects had done so[1].
> I can't even fathom how that's a controversial or political statement, but yet, here we are.
It's political because it's being pushed by political activist groups and it's controversial because not everyone agrees that writing hug should get you banned from a technical community.
> Writing "hug" won't get you banned from a technical community.
Then why did they explicitly put that into their CoC?
> Grow up and realize that context is important.
I think I'm going to stop here, because I don't like arguing with people who use condescending language to hide the fact that they don't have an argument.
It is obvious that no matter what specific part of the CoC I will point out, you will defend it by poisoning the well, no matter how wrong it is.
> This CoC can be summarized as "don't be a jerk to other people". I can't even fathom how that's a controversial or political statement, but yet, here we are.
Your summary is as disingenuous as someone summarizing the Republican party's platform as "run the US government well." It drops all of the important details to arrive at a meaningless platitude. I'm pretty sure you can fathom the controversy, but you're just being deliberately obtuse.
Some of us just want to keep politics out of tech.
We are probably the weirdos I guess.