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Code does not exist in isolation from the community of developers that produced it. Who we collaborate with defines us, to some degree.
Code is completely separate from the community. Community is formed by people and code is just bunch of instructions. What if a fascist forks your projects and adds features to it? It your code fascists now? Does your community support fascists? Of course not. And if a fascist submits a patch to your project and you accept it it does not mean you're collaborating with fascists now and your projects is tainted. That's just absurd. "You're a bad person so I will not merge this bugfix, I will write the exact same fix by myself so that my code stays pure".