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Re:Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM by galaxyLogic on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:48PM (#38198346)
> shouldn’t be controversial to suggest that calling people nazis on the official website is unprofessional

Whom did they call "nazi"? Anybody?

If they didn't call any particular person "nazi" then it's unprofessional to suggest they did that.

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Re:Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM by jrsj on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @07:53PM (#38199459)
No one explicitly

But the idea that it would even be a concern for there to be “nazi bullshit” in a programming language would require such an absurdly broad definition of nazi that i can only assume whoever wrote this would consider a large % of Americans to be Nazis. This is inherently exclusionary. The statement is bullshit. It isn’t “Friendly <3” as the heading would suggest.

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Re:Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM by omginternets on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @08:08PM (#38199609)
The exact phrases in question are:

1. Black lives matter.

2. Trans rights are human rights.

3. No nazi bullsh*t.

Phrases 1 & 2 are well-recognized political slogans, and I don't like some of the organizations that have very vocally rallied behind these slogans.

Do you think that makes me a nazi? If not, how welcome do you think this makes me feel?

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