On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 8:53 AM Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 05:25 Jack Diederich <jackd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm sorry we had to ban Guido for three months but maybe he'll learn his 
>> lesson and not merge commit messages that include screeds about "relics of 
>> white supremacy".
>
>
> I'm guessing there's some layers of irony or sarcasm in this message, but I'm 
> definitely not able to unpack them, and I think it's spectacularly 
> inappropriate regardless. Maybe you're only joking when you say Guido is at 
> fault here, and maybe you're only joking when you act like the problem with 
> white supremacy is people mentioning the existence of white supremacy. I 
> don't know. I hope so, because both statements are completely false. But 
> there are certainly plenty of people who think both those things, so it 
> doesn't work as a joke.

+1. Toxic emails like this are one of the reasons why I'm not actively
following Python lists anymore.

Yury
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