Generalizing entire groups of people clearly isn't asshole behavior by your interpretation given that it's a natural staple of identity politics, though of cour

Generalizing entire groups of people clearly isn't asshole behavior by your interpretation given that it's a natural staple of identity politics, though of course those have convenient escape hatches to absolve themselves of their own terms. Furthermore, the inability to compartmentalize between an individual's work and their beliefs creates lots of practical problems. When one writes code, they are subject to the guidelines of the project and represent themselves purely from their role as programmer. What they do outside this is not in the scope of the project. Discounting an entire software project because one of the contributors outside their duties as a project member said some unsavory things, is outright idiotic. The relevant things here are whether they're good maintainers (and not good people, that's irrelevant) in addition to the technical qualities of the software itself. (By the way, I love how the question about working with a child molester used a gendered pronoun.)