Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
by lawnchair_larry on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:54AM
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That is absurd.
Anyone who thinks that “the privileged” respond the way that they do out of fear is seriously delusional. Activists who think that way will never accomplish their goals, because they fundamentally misunderstand the problem.
Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
by captainbland on Thursday October 25, 2018 @03:17AM
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It's only fear for a minority of far-right activists. For everyone else it's just gate keeping.
For instance see how the rate of women in computer science began to attenuate around 1985: https://jaxenter.com/women-in-computer-science-majors-133646...
Men acting in a misogynistic way defends and reinforces this trend, which is what codes of conduct attempt to alleviate. Calling the opposition to this is a staple of what has been labelled "identity politics", although again it is merely a form of defensive identity politics itself to maintain it as maintaining these behaviours will maintain the downward trend of women participating in computer science.