> To me this seems to be true. From what I’ve seen CoCs are overwhelmingly used as a tool to enforce and reinforce a certain kind of ideological point of view.

I don't know which codes of conduct you have been exposed to. The ones in Linux cover basic things like not being cool to attack other maintainers with posts like:

> Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit.

https://lwn.net/Articles/999197/

This is hardly what I would label as an ideological debate.