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In case anyone is wondering why we're talking about the email address: it's a way of directing discussion away from the offender's behavior and towards the establishment responsible for enforcing standards of conduct. It is a political maneuver to resist this establishment and is part of a broader backlash against codes of conduct and their enforcement.

Secondly, it is a form of harassment: it aims to create a narrative that invents reasons for the conduct officer to be fired.

Like 10 April at 14:10 | Open on fosstodon.org

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Drew DeVault

Third, it's a socially acceptable reason to be outraged at a trans woman exerting her position of power to reprimand a cis man. Doesn't matter if the reprimand is justified, or if she earned that position of power, etc.

10 April at 14:11 | Open on fosstodon.org

evasb 🇺🇦

@drewdevault tbh, Drew, I think only you would think about something wild like this.

We all know that there are a meme that became a conspiracy theory that Red Hat wants to control Linux, so using a Red Hats email just validates this theory that they are being "bullied by the big bad RH". It is extremely unlikely that the same argument would have been the same if the email was "suse.com".

10 April at 15:52 | Open on c.im