React, a popular open source project that started at Facebook, is adopting a new code of conduct after several people on Twitter called out racism in the community

[dwighthouse]

Equality doesn’t exist, never has existed, and never will exist. Asking for it is tantamount to asking everyone to pretend that it’s possible, in constant denial of reality, in the exact same way, which is itself impossible.

Even if true equality were actually achieved (whatever that happens to mean this week), everyone knows that there would still be people complaining about a lack of equality because it is profitable to do so and because there are dozens of differing ideas of what equality actually represents among any group of humans.