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It really seems this is overwhelmingly about communication, not about CoCs or the norms specified in a given CoC. It's not even "I violated the Code of Conduct

It really seems this is overwhelmingly about communication, not about CoCs or the norms specified in a given CoC. It's not even "I violated the Code of Conduct, so I got banned from the conference", we didn't even get that far because just communicating the "I violated the Code of Conduct" part was already a debacle. The post isn't about being cancelled, it's about an awful experience that caused the OP to burn out on conferences, to put it mildly. Not even in the worst straw-person SJW interpretation of CoCs would this be the intended outcome.

btilly 6y ago
Not even in the worst straw-person SJW interpretation of CoCs would this be the intended outcome. Why do you say that? I absolutely think this is intended by some of the people involved. Any political movement that is trying to gain power by creating taboos needs high profile examples to scare people into following their agenda. Incidents like these therefore become something to brag about. It is a basic power play. No different than having a new leader in an organization singling out someone trusted by the previous leadership to target. Which forces the rest of the organization to choose sides, and thereby cements the power of the new leader.
- Huggernaut 6y ago
  What exactly about this incident would scare someone into following the "SJW Agenda", when you can't even guarantee that following the "SJW Agenda" in the CoC would actually protect you?
  - btilly 6y ago
    The fact that you will be held to the standards of the most easily offended member of your audience will be motivation to try to figure out what might offend that member and proactively try to cater to their wishes. You might not know exactly what you have to do to succeed, but you will be certain that failing to hit any checklist item on the SJW agenda is going to get you into trouble. And therefore you have a good reason to proactively try to meet that agenda.

btilly 6y ago

Not even in the worst straw-person SJW interpretation of CoCs would this be the intended outcome. Why do you say that? I absolutely think this is intended by some of the people involved. Any political movement that is trying to gain power by creating taboos needs high profile examples to scare people into following their agenda. Incidents like these therefore become something to brag about. It is a basic power play. No different than having a new leader in an organization singling out someone trusted by the previous leadership to target. Which forces the rest of the organization to choose sides, and thereby cements the power of the new leader.

Huggernaut 6y ago
What exactly about this incident would scare someone into following the "SJW Agenda", when you can't even guarantee that following the "SJW Agenda" in the CoC would actually protect you?
- btilly 6y ago
  The fact that you will be held to the standards of the most easily offended member of your audience will be motivation to try to figure out what might offend that member and proactively try to cater to their wishes. You might not know exactly what you have to do to succeed, but you will be certain that failing to hit any checklist item on the SJW agenda is going to get you into trouble. And therefore you have a good reason to proactively try to meet that agenda.