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Re:Why I Left Rust by foldr on Sunday May 28, 2023 @03:30PM (#36106959)
> for a brief moment in the 90s and early 2000s we didn't have any of this dogma that could demand you nod along. You could be openly gay, openly Christian, conservative, leftist, or apolitical.

An awful lot of people didn't have the luxury of being openly gay in the 90s and 2000s. Depending on how old you are, this is naive at best or disingenuous at worst.

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Re:Why I Left Rust by zozbot234 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @03:59PM (#36107209)
An awful lot of people still don't have the luxury of being openly gay in the 2020s, because they happen to live in militant theocratic states. People on the activist left often seem to conveniently forget this, in a way that can only be fairly described as "naive at best or disingenuous at worst".
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Re:Why I Left Rust by foldr on Sunday May 28, 2023 @06:08PM (#36108261)
>An awful lot of people still don't have the luxury of being openly gay in the 2020s, because they happen to live in militant theocratic states.

Are you talking about Iran or Florida? :)

But more seriously, your overall response is quite cryptic. I can’t answer for the ‘activist left’, whoever you take them to be.

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