What HiPhish and some people in the threads are doing starts to look like strawmen argumentations, and not just today.
For once take a look at the surprisingly LOW amount of times the CoC had to be refered to in our 5 years, where the CoC existed 3 years of them. Yes, it it not perfect, some people left but it had different reasons. Start reading into the past before you judge the present of a project. Even without the CoC, most of us share the view to create a welcoming community. Can we just move on? No one seems to get to a new point here, everyone moves in circles. If that's what you want it's okay but move it to another mailinglist.