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Re:New FreeBSD Code of Conduct by mrchicity on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:57PM (#16408006)
FreeBSD's new CoC wouldn't ban a sexist comment like this, because of the odd "oppressed group" language. Hopefully it was just a copy/paste mistake from the Geek Feminism code.

There's no place in a software project for insulting someone's gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc. just because it's a more typical one. There are certain toxic community members who use well-intended rules like this a shield while they proceed to insult certain groups or stereotype them.

Better to avoid that type of discussion entirely. It's a software project, not a place to discuss politics or race relations. Hopefully they take a look into this and adopt a more neutral CoC like LLVM's: https://llvm.org/docs/CodeOfConduct.html

Re:New FreeBSD Code of Conduct by loeg on Sunday February 18, 2018 @03:04PM (#16408079)
FreeBSD wouldn't sanction the poster for that comment for several reasons:

1. The CoC committee acts on reports -- someone has to be bothered by it.

2. It isn't an insult.

3. It isn't sexist.

Re:New FreeBSD Code of Conduct by mrchicity on Sunday February 18, 2018 @03:15PM (#16408186)
"Unfortunately the [group engaging in negative activity] is also almost entirely comprised of [x]." where x is some immutable or deeply personal characteristic, is advancing an offensive stereotype.