On 2021-03-10 15:17, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:23:33 +0000
David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:

Renaming main branches as 'main' is currently predominant practice on
GitHub (and more broadly in Free Software communities).  Python doesn't
need to cling to an old name based on a tired argument that political
sensitivity is a creeping plot to destroy old "fun" prejudices and
injustices.

Uh... Since you're putting "fun" in quotes, I assume this is quoting
someone else? (who?)

It's not a quote, it's Irony punctuation (in this case, used to indicate sarcasm):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
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