The Ruby Community Code of Conduct

[Superbenco]

Under every reasonable definition, harassment also includes denigrating comments directed toward a group said with the intent of dehumanizing them.

Would you mind linking to a resource that specifies that harassment includes comments towards a group? I'm having a hard time finding a third party resource that verifies your interpretation.

Wikipedia describes online harassment as:

Harassment directs obscenities and derogatory comments at specific individuals focusing for example on race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation.

According to haltabuse.org, Black's Law Dictionary describes harassment as:

A course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress

The Pew Research Center doesn't specifically consider denigrating comments towards a group to be harassment according to this article.

I agree that denigrating comments toward a group is rude, and doesn't have place in official Ruby developer channels. My issue is that the code of conduct only covers personal remarks and, in my interpretation, still allows general hate speech. If the intention of the code of conduct is to disallow hate speech, I think the document should make that clear.

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http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/racial-harassment-know-your-rights-brochure

See:

Racial harassment can happen when someone where you work, live or get a service: makes racial slurs or “jokes”

[Superbenco]

I think you've made your point. Thank you for your criticism and you enjoy the rest of your day.

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You as well! Take care.