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