Codes of Conduct

The Final Software Fuckery

In my previous article, Software Fuckery: Ten Anti-patterns and Malpractices in Modern Software Development, I mentioned some of the most pernicious issues in software development. These alone are enough to cripple human progress in the sphere of software and in technology generally.

But there was another. In the land of Academia, in the hug boxes of dimly lighted rooms, Feminist Brown Shirts forged a fuckery in secret… a master fuckery that threatened to not just cripple open technological progress, but to reverse it. One fuckery to rule them all.

Gender Fascism

Fascism is many things to many people, but what we can all agree on is that, at least in political terms, fascism is rooted in inequality under the law.

Gender fascism, then, can also be defined with similar precision. Gender fascism is inequality under the law where said inequality pivots upon a person’s or group’s gender.

So for example, if one believes in giving more rights to one gender than another (EG — women should have rights, legal privileges, or subsidies that men do not), one is adhering to ‘gender fascism’ in the political sense.

Fascism also has a social embodiment, and is very similar. It is the social norm that one group should be viewed in a less favorable light than another. Obviously with gender fascism, this is a misandrist prejudice against males.

For example, if one thinks all arguments made by women should be ‘listened and believed’ while arguments made by ‘white cis males’ are to be attacked and ignored, then one is adhering to ‘gender fascism’ of the social sort.

To those of us who are already accustomed to living in the dark age of unreason, none of this terribly interesting. The problem is that these ne’er-do-wells are constantly trying to infiltrate our development communities by threatening project maintainers to adopt misandrist, freedom-curbing, and discussion-stifling “Codes of Conduct”. It’s happening to the Go community right now, and causing quite the shit storm —

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3r2rip/the_go_community_is_hostile_towards_a_go_code_of/

Unfortunately, Go community members who oppose the top-down imposition of the fascistic Code of Conduct are simply being ignored.

The Final Fuckery’s Final Form

Codes of Conduct, (or CoCs for short) are effectively social trojan horses for gender fascists to install levers of power into a development community they otherwise don’t care about.

Look at Github’s CoC, for example, where discrimination, harassment, and disparagement against white males is explicitly protected, whereas the same against all other groups is prohibited.

Could there be a clearer manifestation of gender fascism in software development?

The Solution?

Surprisingly the solution is simple. To show your backbone and keep your community from falling into never-ending drama, simply add (or if you’re not the maintainer, agitate to add) No Code of Conduct to your software project -

No, not that double-Sheen awesome-fest — this one!

On a github project, it goes right into your README.md file and displays at the bottom of your project page like so -

Problem solved!

Now if only the Go maintainers would listen to their community, they could avoid the oncoming PC shit storm in the same way.

THE IMPORTANCE OF FREE EXPRESSION

Let’s end this article with one of the best speeches I’ve encountered in defense of free expression this year. If you haven’t seen it, you should put aside whatever you were going to do for the next 15 minutes, and watch one of the greatest speeches of perhaps the 21 century.

Watch it now!

ADDENDUM — THEY KEEP GIVING US MORE EVIDENCE

Many events have a occurred from the time I originally wrote this article, piling up evidence that further demonstrates the gravity of our concerns.

We’ve watched the very same people behind these CoCs install themselves in academia only to set up kangaroo courts against male students falsely accused of sexual assault. The ‘codes’ they implemented have resulted in stripping said students of due process, and being wrongly convicted. Kafkaesque trials have shattered not just academic careers, but the bright promise of entire lives - http://www.newsweek.com/2015/12/18/other-side-sexual-assault-crisis-403285.html

These Codes of Conduct contain the exact same types of rights-curbing and accountability-obliterating social legislation, written and enforced with the intent of destroying however many lives are necessary to satiate the power lust of our social justice friends.

The following is just some of the fallout that has transpired -

This is how they installed themselves and drained the resources of the GNOME Foundation, potentially bankrupting the organization and dislocating their most important contributors — http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/09/more-social-justice-convergence-in.html

A more visceral example is how they attempted to use the Contributor Covenant to expel open source contributes for ideological reasons — opal/opal#941. Note that this vile person now works at Github on an SJW enforcement panel! — http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/25/github-hires-notorious-social-justice-warrior-to-work-on-anti-harassment/

Some people consider this line of argumentation is akin to paranoid ‘conspiracy theory’. However, our analysis is 100% in line with our experience with how the contributor covenant has been abused in practice to exclude people from communities who have ‘wrong’ public opinions — no ‘theory’ is necessary.

First see the agitation — https://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004

Then see the abuse — https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

Here is Eric S. Raymond’s notes on how these same SJW’s follow Linux Tarvolds around at meetups and attempt to frame his for sexual assault to remove him from the Linux community — http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918

Here is a follow-up interview with Eric in the tech press — http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/01/07/social-justice-warriors-wreaking-havoc-in-open-source-software/

Still, there are holdouts that believe none of this debauchery will ever affect them. If you don’t think this crap impacts you, here’s a thread on how the exact same thing has impacted people just like you — https://www.reddit.com/r/TiADiscussion/comments/3oda11/has_sjw_ruined_something_for_you

These codes of conduct are racist, misandrist, anti-privacy, anti-collaboration, and most damaging of all for this community, exclusionary. Several people have already stated their refusal to participate due to this politicized power-grabbing. I could go on and on and on… but people with open minds should pretty well understand my point by now.

But to underline the point for those still grappling with the subject — The evidence overwhelmingly shows that SJW’s aren’t out to stop abuse — they’re out to legislate for themselves a monopoly on it… in turn using it to expel and damage innocent people who won’t carry their ideological water.

Obtaining that monopoly to abuse is precisely the purpose significant portions of this code of conduct are intended to serve.

Let us work together to remove it before it starts removing us. Our dissidence is more than just ‘feeling passionate about a subject’ — it’s about protecting our communities and our own livelihoods.

ADDENDUM 2 — F# COMMUNITY COMES UNDER ATTACK!

Here was my related attempt to fight off an SJW invasion in my own F# community — https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/pull/772#issuecomment-190309926. Read on to find just how it turned out!

ADDENDUM 3 — THE SIEGE OF LAMBDACONF!

The bullshit keeps piling up. But the first real resistance to gender fascism in the software community has also begun to solidify…

A group of SJWs had actively campaigned to remove a speaker from StrangeLoop, a very important and prominent functional programming conference, by falsely accusing him of racism.

Disgustingly, they were successful. But when trying to repeat their misdeeds at LambdaConf, they were met with the first organized resistance in the software development community.

As of today, only 4 days into the 30 day fundraiser, their campaign goal of $15k to saveLambdaConf has been exceeded by $5000!

$20k, and growing, to preserve the integrity of the software industry from rabid SJWs has surprised and emboldened many. If you haven’t donated, consider doing so today! Every dollar raised to protect ourselves from these brown-shirts is a dollar to save software from unhinged politicizers, intolerant interlopers, and political purgers!