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    "title": "I Violated A Code of Conduct",
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    "created": "2020-10-29 13:33:43 UTC",
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    "html": "<p>Via <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926214\">Hacker News</a> we have this from <a href=\"https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/\">Jeremy Howard</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>NumFOCUS found I violated their Code of Conduct (CoC) at JupyterCon because my talk was not \u00e2\u0080\u009ckind\u00e2\u0080\u009d, because I said Joel Grus was \u00e2\u0080\u009cwrong\u00e2\u0080\u009d regarding his opinion that Jupyter Notebook is not a good software development environment.</p>\n<p>Joel (who I greatly respect, and consider an asset to the data science community) was not involved in NumFOCUS\u00e2\u0080\u0099s action, was not told about it, and did not support it.</p>\n<p>NumFOCUS did not follow their own enforcement procedure and violated their own CoC, left me hanging for over a week not even knowing what I was accused of, and did not give me an opportunity to provide input before concluding their investigation.</p>\n<p>I repeatedly told their committee that my emotional resilience was low at the moment due to medical issues, which they laughed about and ignored, as I tried (unsuccessfully) to hold back tears.</p>\n<p>The process has left me shattered, and I won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t be able to accept any speaking requests for the foreseeable future.</p>\n<p>I support the thoughtful enforcement of Code of Conducts to address sexist, racist, and harassing behavior, but that is not what happened in this case.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Jeremy exhibits <a href=\"https://infogalactic.com/info/Stockholm_syndrome\">Stockholm Syndrome</a> in his article. He extols the virtues of Codes of Conduct, even though the actual application of this COC left him \"shattered.\"</p>\n<p>As with Communism, this is not a problem of the COC \"not being applied properly\" or \"not being done right.\" Social Justice codes of conduct <em>cannot</em> be \"applied properly\" or \"done right\" according to their popularly-assumed intentions. They are always-and-only in place to allow the exercise of arbitrary power over others. The way the COC was enforced here is the norm, not the exception.</p>\n"
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