On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 4:01 AM JC Brand <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, I don't think coming up with ever more fine-grained categorization > of what constitutes marginalized persons and putting that in the CoC is the > right way to go. > > One can always come up with more categories of marginalized people, and > trying to enumerate all of them in a CoC is IMO impractical, while > mentioning only some of them can create the impression that some categories > of people are "more equal" than others. >
It isn't always about practical enforcement, it is a statement of values. As a member who belongs to at least three of the typically listed groups, including LGBT, and I have been assaulted for this, I rarely read the lists but it makes me feel safer in new groups.
