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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.They are though, or should be anyway. People from marginalized groups are just that, marginalized. We as an organisation should do the extra effort to support individuals from these groups in order to allow them to be safe in our spaces, to live up to their potential and what they'd like to achieve and contribute.
You're basically advocating for so-called
positive discrimination (aka affirmative action), which is a
political position advocated for by certain political groupings.
I'm on record from previous discussions in saying that I don't
think a supposedly neutral standards organization should be
instrumentalized for the furtherance of political programmes.
There are politically contentious topics surrounding what constitutes marginalized identities and how one (and society) should go about accommodating them.At the end of the day, the tiniest minority is the individual, and requiring that we treat each individual with respect and courtesy is enough, without having to refer to specific (sometimes politically charged) categories.Could you clarify "sometimes politically charged"?