Code, conflict, and conduct

Posted Sep 19, 2018 16:38 UTC (Wed) by jkingweb (subscriber, #113039)
In reply to: Code, conflict, and conduct by k3ninho
Parent article: Code, conflict, and conduct

Indeed. I would think the only white males who would feel targeted (or threatened?) by the enumerated list of bad behaviour are those who do not believe such behaviour is bad. Everyone else can probably benefit from having some things spelled out so that no one is surprised when a dispute arises. To me it reads as all very generic and applicable to everyone (though the first one might be construed as aimed at men more than women), with the fourth a particularly useful bit of etiquette that bears reinforcing.

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Code, conflict, and conduct

Posted Sep 19, 2018 19:57 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

It's possible to fear being accused of bad behavior based on privilege etc without really understanding what that means. I can see that as legitimately scary for some people.

Thankfully, it's not very hard to learn about. It should only remain a problem for those who don't really want to understand what it means.

Also some people fear issues like this being raised in bad faith, and potentially use confirmation bias to convince themselves it's usually in bad faith. I haven't really seen that happen in my personal reality though.