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It really shouldn’t be controversial to suggest that calling people nazis on the official website for your programming language is unprofessional, but here we are…


> shouldn’t be controversial to suggest that calling people nazis on the official website is unprofessional

Whom did they call "nazi"? Anybody?

If they didn't call any particular person "nazi" then it's unprofessional to suggest they did that.


The exact phrases in question are:

1. Black lives matter.

2. Trans rights are human rights.

3. No nazi bullsh*t.

Phrases 1 & 2 are well-recognized political slogans, and I don't like some of the organizations that have very vocally rallied behind these slogans.

Do you think that makes me a nazi? If not, how welcome do you think this makes me feel?


No one explicitly

But the idea that it would even be a concern for there to be “nazi bullshit” in a programming language would require such an absurdly broad definition of nazi that i can only assume whoever wrote this would consider a large % of Americans to be Nazis. This is inherently exclusionary. The statement is bullshit. It isn’t “Friendly <3” as the heading would suggest.


You’re pretending it isn’t a political slogan and that the meaning doesn’t extend beyond the literal sense of the words.

I’m wondering why you’d do that.


Quite the opposite if you see my other comments, I think you may have misread what I said here. This statement is clearly a problem imo, its usage of political slogans makes it more of a declaration of political allegiance rather than actually being about inclusivity.


I did indeed misread, and we are in perfect agreement! My apologies!




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