OT: Autism in discussion groups (was: Re: Proposal: Disconnect comp.lang.python from python-list)

[Michael Torrie]

On 5/8/21 6:23 PM, Jason C. McDonald wrote:
> Usually, I find when people dump on CoCs, they're just angry at
> accountability. I haven't known anyone yet who was a productive
> member of Python and opposed to the CoC, at least in principle
> and aim.

I disagree.  Many people are opposed to CoCs for a variety of reasons
including the fact that many CoCs are political in nature.  Others
oppose them for legal liability reasons.  On his radio show Ask Noah (a
radio show about Linux), Noah has interviewed several people who oppose
CoCs for political and legal reasons.  The Southeast Linux Fest in
particular explicitly decided not to have a CoC for mostly legal reasons
(which he described in episode 80).

I do agree asking people to simply not be stupid doesn't seem to work
these days for whatever reason.