Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
Personally I believe there&#x27;s a place for CoCs in any large organization or group but I think the content of CoCs should never include any political ideological opinions. If professionalism, respect, and separation of one&#x27;s political and&#x2F;or religious beliefs from a project&#x2F;event is impossible for some then they shouldn&#x27;t be part of it. Honestly, I wouldn&#x27;t know or care if one programmer was a devout Mormon that donated to Prop 8 if all my interactions with said person (obviously mentioning Brenden Eich here) were purely within the confines of a project or convention regarding programming of some sort. Nor would that person ever have to know that I&#x27;m a Christian Gnostic, Georgist, bisexual, trans woman (the last part would probably be obvious but immaterial still) in the same context. We&#x27;re two programmers coming together in common cause to produce something cool (I hope).<p>Yet it seems there are those on the left (and to some extent on the right) that demand ideological purity in all things. &quot;You must be the right kind of [ideological stance&#x2F;trait], lest you offend someone...&quot; Seriously, I&#x27;ve seen flaps over Laura Jane Grace&#x27;s book being titled Tranny (she&#x27;s trans) over the last week. It&#x27;s just as bad when you look at how fellow libertarians go at each other (see Jeffrey Tucker&#x27;s essay on Libertarian Brutalism and the resulting fallout).<p>It&#x27;s absurd how bad things have gotten in this regard and I honestly am concerned we&#x27;ll see ideological puritanism infect various F&#x2F;LOSS projects and events. Just keep the CoC to the absolute essentials (don&#x27;t be a perv&#x2F;jerk&#x2F;stalker&#x2F;etc and don&#x27;t have sensitive topics in conversations...).