ugh i really need to hire an editor.
On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 4:57:16 AM UTC-5 mortdeus wrote: > First of all full disclosure, I just want to apologize ahead of time to > anybody who finds what I am about to say offensive. I understand politics > are really important to a lot of people (especially right now) so I > understand how just my suggestion of this might offend people who care a > lot about the issue. And for that I sincerely do apologize to anybody here > who might find what I am about to say offensive. > > But with that being said, I full heartedly believe that what I am about to > say is extremely important towards trying to maintain the healthy culture > we've all been working to build for the last 10 years. > > Leave your politics at home where they belong. > > This ad should have never been put up to begin with because frankly this > community is far more important (and far larger) than America's general > incapability to get along with one another. > > When I type golang.org into my browser and click send, I view this as my > escape hatch from the absolutely and obnoxiously too loud world were > constantly forced to listen to, because frankly social media decided to > give everybody megaphones and started rewarding people with fame for being > smart enough (and more concerning physically attractive enough) to promote > a message that can be heard through all the noise pollution. > > So honestly, while I didn't say anything about it, but honestly when I saw > the ad a few weeks before the election it seriously broke my heart. It > didn't piss me off, it made me literally want to cry, not because I don't > believe we shouldn't do more to help fight poverty (because the reality is > that while we might have a racism problem in America, we definitely have a > poverty problem and the later is far easier to quantify and effectively > address) but because I literally thought we all understood, in our > community the only thing we could care less about than how you'd all band > together to vote politically, is how you'd all band together to vote for > "quality of life" additions to the language that would probably ruin it. > > As a registered Republican (but not really a Trump supporter) I am going > to say that Black Lives Matter, but not more than this community being > impartial to the radical notion that we have to be willing to accept even > white supremacists into our ranks, if they like to code in the best > programming language on the planet. Because frankly it is through a united, > loving and deliberately NON-PARTISANLY inclusive community structure that > ultimately allows us to defeat them at their own game. > > All I am saying is we need to take down the "conservatives not welcome > here" sign. > > And if me saying that offends you, then like I said I am sorry, but > imagine if that tag said "have you been to church lately?" and asked you to > donate to Chris Pratt's church because that is align with the political > campaign strategy that aimed to keep Trump in office, when all you want to > do is think about creative ways to move bits around. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/747ba9f5-ac53-4265-a2b5-bf77039d491an%40googlegroups.com.
