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the actual effect of enforcing this rule in this circumstance is basically to say that implicit political loyalty tests are a normal thing to have on a website for a programming language

on a surface level the statement isn’t controversial in any way, but the particular language that’s used signals something else entirely

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No, the rule is about not going on irrelevant tangents and not dingleberrypicking stuff from submissions. Its actual effect is that such diversions get moderated by users and moderators, just like this one did by users.

Fair, you’re probably right

Golang had a very similar statement on their homepage when the Gleam homepage was created.

It's very normal.

Not sure what this was since it appears they just have a link to the code of conduct now.

The type of statement isn’t really the issue, but the specific language used being in the form of political slogans and the “Nazi” bit. I don’t remember seeing anything quite like that on the Go page. Or any other programming language’s page.

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