It seems that, as a rule, modern open source communities devolve into an utter shitshow. Well done to the voices of reason, thumb voters and the maintainer for handling this appropriately.
Projecting, maybe, but at the same time the last few weeks have shown there's a not insignificant amount of people in other Western countries who are addicted to American culture, latched closely to the teat, who are all too eager to have American issues imported into their own societies.