Update to the Zcash Contributors CoC

The purpose of the addition is to address a real-world tactic of the alt-right and white supremacists. I didn’t write it to appear balanced just for the sake of it; I wrote it to address a concrete problem that we actually have. For the record, yes, something like LGTBT would be unacceptable because it’s a specific threat (but something like ACAB might not be, depending on other context).

LGBT wouldn’t because the idea that leftists use that to mean “Liberals Get the Bullet Too” is not a real thing. It’s a right-wing talking point.

In that case, you should stop using an anti-Semitic, white supremacist meme, if you care at all about Jewish people and people of colour.

Yes, you do.

You must explain to them this requirement of the Community CoC.

I know it probably feels bad to have used an anti-Semitic meme and have to do something about that. You’ll get over it.

To not do something about it and just continue doing the same thing, would, in fact, be racist.

Yes, that is what it is saying (quibbles about whether the term “censor” really applies aside).

BTW, Orwell may have made significant contributions to literature but he had his own flaws, and we’d apply the CoC equally to him too if he were here.

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