On 04/20/2017 01:46 PM, Ben Finney wrote: >[...] > I am not obliged to address every point of every post, and the absence > of comment on any particular point is not generally to be read as full > assent.
Certainly anyone is free to choose to ignore bigotry on the list, because one agrees with it, or does not want to oppose the poster, or any other reason; that is a perfectly valid individual decision. But that does not apply to an entire community. When members of the community en masse react that way, and a few even laud the bigotry, and still no protest, that is a condemnation of a community's ethics and pretty indisputable proof the CoC is a tool, to be dragged out when convenient to repress unpopular opinion or posters and ignored when it interferes with propagating the popular view. >> "if you are going to have a CoC, it must be applied even-handedly." > > I agree entirely with that. Sadly, agreement is meaningless if ignored in practice. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
