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[–] breakcore@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Amazing, very good decision.

They do ask for donations, and what a time to donate, to show that moral and human choices should be weighted as they have been done in this situation!

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Reading the article is wild. They were accepted for the grant. It's a cybersecurity grant too. Tools like npm will also benefit from it. Great!

But then government attached the conditon python foundation stops quote on quote "promoting DEI activities."

And if a lawyer decides some random thing is DEI, Python foundation would possibly owe financial debt to the government

Is it even a donation at this point?

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

A loan to be forgiven if every effort is made to be politically favorable to the administration. Its fucking insane.

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This culture war shit is pathetic. "DEI" has become a dogwhistle (if one can even call it that at this point) for "I don't like black people/brown people/women", and they all shamelessly parrot it with their whole chest. Good on the PSF for doing the right thing and calling this garbage out for what it is.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a fairly inevitable reaction to cancel culture. This was predicted and warned against when left-wing cancel culture was at its height, but people didn't listen. Now we have right-wing cancel culture instead.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think I've seen left wing cancel culture in my lifetime. I doubt it has ever happened in the USA at all, actually

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

There are some examples in the very first list I found googling for "cancel culture examples".

Not all of them are political (e.g. cancelling someone for sexual assault is clearly not, and that Heineken one... how??), but a decent number are, e.g. number 6 is about as partisan as you can get.