[ruby-core:73422] Re: [Ruby trunk - Misc #12004] Code of Conduct

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:18 AM, <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Issue #12004 has been updated by ph ph.
> Coraline Ada Ehmke wrote:
> > > Should you persist on perturbing this technical community with your
> > > political ideas, it will be perfectly warranted to take positive acti=
on
> > > unambiguously opposite of the ones you are promoting, in order to
> > > disincentive you to persist on imposing your crazy ideas.
> >
> > It's hard not to read this as a threat.
>
> It is a threat. A threat against your ideas.
> But your reaction by calling this a general threat, implicitly meaning
> against you as a person, proves once again your straightforward
> political agenda, and what it will bring to Ruby.
>

Do you truly believe that what you are advocating is not, itself, politics?
Your assertion that we, the wider Ruby Community, are *merely* technical is
a political opinion, and one that you have made *threats* to enforce others
keep their ideas of what the Ruby Community means to them to themselves.
You are making an argument of ideological purity (re: tech vs not tech,
plus other bits), which is an extremely political stance. Reality, even in
=E2=80=9Ctechnical communities=E2=80=9D, is much more nuanced than your sim=
plistic approach
would suggest.

Your argumentation is based on half truths just like you mention the
> fact that we are "a community". We are not a community.
> we are a  _technical_ community. Not a national community, or a
> any community which should take extra precaution compared to
> the rest of the people : if you feel something is to be done for
> a cause you care, it has nothing specific to do with the Ruby
> technical community.
>

One cannot have a technical community without a community. Whenever you
have a group of like-minded individuals, you *by definition* have a
community. Our like-mindedness is based around our like for Ruby the
programming language. Because people are not robots or automatons, a
community *must* be able to work with its members. Healthy communities are
welcoming communities. Unhealthy communities are exclusive communities. I
prefer Ruby to be a welcoming *healthy* community than an unhealthy
exclusionary community ruled by the diktats of the narrow-minded who can=E2=
=80=99t
accept the modern world.


> If you continue to promote your political ideas in the technical
> realm, we will, on principle, attack your ideas, to provide you with
> the necessary incentives to stop.
>

It has nothing personal, nor is it linked to the ideas themselves you are
> promoting. It is just on principle.
>

=E2=80=9CI will close the mind of the Ruby community to anything except tha=
t which
I, ph ph, deem acceptable.=E2=80=9D How progressive of you.


> You want to impose nothing sexual
> despite the fact that :
> - you are willing to introduce a fringe _psychological_ distinction  of
> "gender" VS "gender identity" VS "gender expression"
>

These concepts are not fringe. Your personal distaste is showing and
masquerading as =E2=80=9Cfact=E2=80=9D.


> - different cultures consider different things sexual
>

Irrelevant.


> Clearly this is a bound to fail even in theory, and this trainwreck shoul=
d
>  be stopped.
>
>
> All this has nothing to do with Ruby a programming language,
> everything about your political ideas  and will to impose them,
> and promise nothing good but trouble as has now been evidenced.
>

The only trouble I am seeing is someone who is making threats and promises
of retribution on someone who only wants to see her community become better
and more welcoming.

-a
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Austin Ziegler =E2=80=A2 [e-mail] =E2=80=A2 austin@halostatue.c=
a
http://www.halostatue.ca/ =E2=80=A2 http://twitter.com/halostatue

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