Instead, find someone in your community that is also part of that minority group to reach out.

It’s bad taste, no matter who reaches out.
Besides, it can go wrong quite easily, remember livecoding.tv?

I’m not against anything said in the article, but in the end most of the bullet points were the usual “don’t be a dick” stuff, no one would stealth-update a T&C unless they wanted to do shady stuff in the first place.