> Using potentially offensive language or slurs, in one case even calling an SNL skit from the 1970s using the same slur “genuinely funny”, which shows a lack of empathy towards other community members.

> Use of potentially offensive terms, even when self-censored or alluded to indirectly.

Looking at the source linked, the topic was removal of a PyPI package named "slut" and - to avoid using the word directly - Tim Peters described it as: "a word that Dan Akroyd used to apply to Jane Curtin (brilliant comic actors from America's Saturday Night Live TV show, but back in the days when it was genuinely funny )".

As far as I can tell (through search), he never used the word directly himself, and the parenthetical remarks seemed to be more making a light-hearted jab at modern SNL rather than calling this specific skit or its use of the word genuinely funny.

Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41187470

"Making a significant number of posts (47 out of 177) to a discussion of a change to bylaws, "which created an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, which encouraged increasingly emotional responses from other community members.""

So other people got emotional and violated the coc? Sounds like their fault.

"Defending 'reverse racism' and 'reverse sexism', concepts not backed by empirical evidence, which could be seen as deliberate intimidation or creating an exclusionary environment."

So, someone was probably being racist and sexist towards white people and men, and he called them out on it, and this was a code of conduct violation? Anyone involved in this organization is at massive reputational risk.

"Dismissing unacceptable behavior of others as a 'neurodivergent' trait, which is problematic because it creates a stereotype that neurodivergent people are hard to interact with and need special treatment."

Was this about stallman?

It's hard to believe any of the other accusations when these are in there. Maybe some are true, impossible to say when these are included, it just looks like someone with impaired judgement who may be widly misinterpreting reality.

Everyone knows that Python's inner circle is exceedingly woke, to the point where they can't tolerate anyone who isn't.