On kernel mailing list behavior

I've worked in lots of workplaces in which insulting people was beyond the pale. Actually that would be all of them.

In not one was this implemented via 'endless committees', nor was it true that 'everyone of every race, color, gender identity and (approved) religion [came] together in perfect harmony to utterly stamp out any dissenting opinion. Because the one diversity that is forbidden is diversity of thought'.

I find it astonishing that you believe that being asked to not be horrible to people is equivalent to some sort of police state!