Hi Rowan, I don’t presume to speak for Paul, but I don’t think the point is that any particular person involved in this discussion is presumed to have a political intent, rather that CoCs themselves (the Contributor Covenant in particular), and the people typically agitating for them, come from a place of hyper-politicization.
Exhibit A: https://github.com/CoralineAda/contributor_covenant/commit/0e927bc01614d6b0de021a314dbe95e7dfcc7bb9#diff-eacf331f0ffc35d4b482f1d15a887d3bL17 Exhibit B: https://archive.is/dgilk (the threatening language at the end is particularly chilling) I think most reasonable people can agree that these kinds of derailing conversations are far more toxic than any knock-on effects of not having a CoC in the first place. - Nate
