You repeatedly posted flamewar comments in this thread. We ban accounts that do that. Please stop.

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> My point is that non-white non-cisgendered non-male people are already doing this in order to exist in the workplace!

I'm struggling to see how the "Don't"s in the article are associated with a particular orientation, race or sex... are you suggesting that non-white non-cisgendered non-male people can't cope with a more casual tone? Why? In my experience non-"white" people are just as casual or formal as "white" people ("white" is such a weirdly American concept, here in the UK we wouldn't want to group the Poles and the French together).

The lack of granularity in America is honestly extremely annoying to me, different states or cities generally have wildly different "white" culture, traditions, commonality, and attitudes. It is often more hidden or subtle and less overt or surface level like it is in Europe.

Equally annoying is when people attempt to define 'African-American' as though it was one homogeneous entity of experience. The experiences and struggles of a young black man in NYC is vastly different from the struggles of a young black man in rural Alabama.

This is the problem with categorization of people in general. All this "you're white", "you're black", "you're male", "you're female" is belittling because it's so surface level and ignores the depth of human experience. There's so much diversity within each of these broad categories.

In America, "white" is used instead of "European" because it's less ambiguous, since it distinguishes Americans of European ancestry from European citizens.

That being said, "white" is also ambiguous in other ways. It's generally not meant to be strictly speaking about skin color, since people with fair skin from certain parts of the middle east, for example, would not necessarily be considered to be white in this context.

> My point is that non-white non-cisgendered non-male people are already doing this in order to exist in the workplace

No they aren’t. Non-white people aren’t avoiding the use of emojis in code review and they certainly aren’t against telling someone an idea is bad.

Speaking as an old white cisgendered male, my opinion is that if you're white, cisgendered, and male, then you're playing the game of life on easy mode.

You never get a chance to even see what it's like for everyone else who is forced to play on regular mode, or worse.

Cool story. CoCs are invented by people “playing on easy mode” to signal to other easy mode players of their guilt. They do nothing to help the people on regular or hard.

you better watch it.. this could very we’ll be....mansplaining