[python-committers] Fw: CoC violation (was: Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause)

[Christian Heimes]

On 21/09/2018 12.46, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> Le 21/09/2018 à 02:06, Nathaniel Smith a écrit :
>> Now sure, that taboo is an American thing, and I wouldn't support
>> automatically banning someone who used it in genuine ignorance, was
>> repentant when they realized what they'd done, etc.
> 
> So why are American taboos specifically forbidden, and not other taboos?
>  Is there anything special about Americans that deserves this?  Does it
> mean that Python is a community for Americans foremost, and others are
> just second-class participants?  The more this is going on, the more it
> is the impression I get, and things have become distinctly *worse* recently.

I don't understand why you are drawing the reverse conclusion here. Can
you give me one concrete example, in which a French, German, or any
other non-US American taboo was violated and not counteracted with swift
reaction?