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Re:Open Letter to the Emacs Maintainers by MichaelGG on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @07:47PM (#12125804)
GitHub code of conduct actually is in favor of racism, if you're in the wrong group. Ditto for sexism.

"We will not act on complaints regarding ‘reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’"

That they even use the term "reverse racism" is telling. This is from a company that, in internal training, has anti-white material. "This is not work for white people", "biggest barriers to progress are white women". https://m.imgur.com/7YaVYUx?r

I don't particularly care, but if you're going to be inclusive, it should be technically inclusive, not loaded with politics. I'd bet there's a lot of people like me, thinking a egalitarian would be far less of an issue though I don't like curtailing expression, abrasive it may be, nor policing people in their personal lives.

Re:Open Letter to the Emacs Maintainers by jcoffland on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @08:30PM (#12126004)
Those quotes are inexcusable but are from a talk given by the presenter prior to her working with Github.
Re:Open Letter to the Emacs Maintainers by MichaelGG on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:07PM (#12126173)
Ah my mistake. It wasn't at GitHub then? I guess it fit the narrative so I didn't verify. OTOH if they hired such a person for a related position, that speaks a lot. (If it was a technical hire, less so.)