Re:The problem with the Code of Conduct
by anon6357814 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:25PM
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That sounds like a low equilibrium point.
It doesn't have to be permanent. I think that once white men have more of a taste of this nervousness, maybe we can fix some stuff that's deeply broken in our society. But I think it's necessary as a first step.
« a demand for a flawless human who is always genuinely nice, polite and only makes perfectly inoffensive jokes and never raises their voice while arguing things »
Yeah, that sounds similar to the frustrations I've heard from women and people of color, being held to a higher standard than their white or male colleagues.
I'm societally allowed to be rude, even threatening! And I'm rarely called on it. But that's not actually a good thing.
So I think it's totally fair to have a CoC that says "be nice to people" and has some teeth and makes white men a little nervous. "A little nervous" is kind of a baseline for a lot of people. Think of it as educational.