DUduncan_bayne·Dec 2, 2015
My reply in full:
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Coraline,
Many of the stated goals of the social justice movement are noble. I hope that everyone involved in open source projects would support the idea that we need to eliminate barriers that have, for no good reason, historically prevented people from participation.
What those opposed to the SJ movement in general take issue with is that the SJ movement isn’t just about those goals. It is becoming a means to silence people, a means to create the very sort of oppression of dissent that has so frequently been targeted at the minorities the SJ movement claims to represent.
To take a concrete example, you wrote:
“They are working to improve the state of open source from the inside.”
In what way would you say your actions during the OpalGate saga were working towards improving the state of open source?
A contributor
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to the project made a statement in public with which you disagreed. You then directly petitioned the project maintainers to eject him from the project[1].
I then raised a pull request[2] on your covenant, in an attempt to spell out that this sort of thing (penalising a contributor for speech outside the context of a project) was an unintended consequence of the system. It clearly wasn’t; the PR was rejected. Effectively “wontfix: by design”.
To be blunt: based on observations of outspoken SJWs like yourself, hackers like myself think that there is an unspoken delta between your stated aims (which as I’ve said are often noble), and your practice, which is to use open source projects as a weapon against their contributors when they behave in politically unacceptable ways (e.g. OpalGate and Brendan Eich).
[1] https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
[2] https://github.com/CoralineAda/contributor_covenant/pull/74
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