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Re:Open Letter to the Emacs Maintainers by sanswork on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:32PM (#12126260)
They can but it is a lot easier to remove someone from the community when you can point to actual rules of the community they've broken besides just "we don't like you".

I honestly can't see peoples objections to CoC. If as you say it doesn't actually change anything why do you object?

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Re:Open Letter to the Emacs Maintainers by ciupicri on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:54PM (#12126337)
Because you have to waste time reading it, and because they tend to force people to sugarcoat everything they say so that someone doesn't get "triggered" [1]. They also encourage SJWs (social justice warriors) to waste other people's time with various crap, for example the Node.js pronoun scandal [2].

[1]: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Trigger_warning

[2]: https://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

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Re:Open Letter to the Emacs Maintainers by sanswork on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:57PM (#12126349)
This response explains everything about your stance. Thank you.
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