SJWs attack open source software teams

Around the time of Trump's first Presidential campaign, we used to hear about SJWs trying to introduce Code of Conduct guidelines to open source project teams. These are painted as anti-harassment and anti-bullying guidelines, and allegedly protect minorities and LGBT goons from abuse. One activist guy - a trans woman that calls himself Coraline Ada Ehmke - was apparently the big driving force behind this effort. He apparently drafted a sample code of conduct, which he then tried to get various open source project teams to adopt. It was a blatant attempt to inject politics into software development teams, and though most open source programmers lean left, I expected people to reject Ehmke's advances. But it seems he succeeded wildly, at least in getting a version of his CoC adopted. Wikipedia says he claims his code of conduct is adopted by 100k projects, big and small! The adoption caused some damage - some good programmers apparently got ensnared by CoC and got kicked out. But it seems the developers fought back successfully, essentially by removing ambiguity and confusion, and by defining how they would enforce it.

Opal was one of the projects that adopted Ehmke's creation. After that happened, one of the main developers of Opal, Elia Schito, posted a tweet on Twitter that this Emhke guy didn't like. Italian government was planning to introduce lessons about gender for young students. While commenting on this, Schito made a derogatory comment on trans goons. He said transgender people have trouble accepting reality. Emhke promptly called him transphobic and tried to get him removed from Opal. That didn't work. Emhke's CoC (that he got Opal to adopt) didn't specifically target stuff people say outside of their software development work. Schito made his comments on Twitter, outside the Opal message board, so he didn't violate the code of conduct. Ehmke then tried to sneak in a change to the CoC to include comments made anywhere. Fortunately, he was caught, and the change was rejected. Schito survived the attack. After this, a few projects deliberately chose the older version of Emhke's CoC in order to avoid punishing people for their speech elsewhere.

Around the same time that Ehmke was forcing his CoC on FOSS projects, social media sites started tightening up "hate speech" rules. It's like a leftist group decided to start pushing things harder or something. Twitter started sucking up to LGBT goons hard around that time (which is when its downfall started). Twitter used to suspend users for causing the slightest offense to trans people, for example:

• A man can never become a woman.
• There are only two genders.
• Transgenderism is a mental disease.
• Transwomen are men.

Punishing someone for calling transgenderism a mental disease is especially ironic, given that this is what the trans goons themselves get their therapists to say so they can bill their insurance company for the "counseling", and the subsequent "treatment." And it's not just Twitter that had a problem with that statement. Amazon had (and continues to have) an issue too.

Ehmke himself seemed to have become less relevant since then. After the CoC stunt, he was hired by Git Hub as some sort of Diversity goon, but was let go after a year for poor performance! LOL! Rumor was that Github hired Ehmke as a PR exercise. Several other companies that went the woke route after George Floyd's death and hired a bunch of useless DEI morons are currently getting rid of them. Looks like some people are waking up.

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