On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Christophe Pettus <x...@thebuild.com> writes: > > 2. I don't think that there is a country where someone being driven out > of a technical community by harassment is an acceptable local value. > > Yeah, this. People that I've known and respected, and who did not seem > at all thin-skinned, have left this community because of harassment. > We need to try to stop that, not because of "political correctness", > but to ensure that our community has a long-term future. > > It's not a simple thing, and I don't envy the CoC committee's task. > For instance, I hope we can all agree that sexual harassment is > unacceptable --- but I can imagine that what one person thought was > friendly banter was harassment to the other, particularly if different > cultures are involved. The committee will likely have to sort out such > situations and try to reconcile the two people without either starting a > war or driving away either person. They may not always succeed. But not > trying is not a better answer.
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