> Isn't it obvious that "nazi bullshit" isn't welcome? Like a no-brainer?

Unfortunately, not in this day and age.

> Why does a programming language feel the need to say this?

It's less about "the language saying it" and more about the standards of the community that surrounds the language.

For a language to thrive, it needs a community of people contributing to it. If it doesn't, it'll eventually die unused. As such, there's more than "just the language"; it is also a community-building effort.

> Also, the phrase "nazi bullshit" is severely...

IMHO, you're reading too much into the word "bullshit".

No programming language community allows anything remotely resembling nazism, and they don't feel the need to say it out loud because it goes without saying. When they say it explicitly it's because they mean "nazi bullshit" to be "anything even slightly right leaning". Gleam is the most highly politicised language community I have ever seen by a long shot. I'm not making a normative claim here btw, I'm just sharing what I've observed.

> I'm just sharing what I've observed

Can you be more specific? I'm curious about the types of "slightly right leaning" things that you think are reasonable to say in a programming language community, but that would be controversial or forbidden in a "highly politicised"/"no nazi bullshit" community.

Any praise of capitalism, any outward support of right leaning parties, any criticisms of immigration policy, etc.

HN itself has quite a lot of "nazi bullshit." You don't usually, regularly see people being virulent about it but people frequently endorse policies that would absolutely have fit cleanly into the historical nazi party's platform. Things like race science and eliminationist policies against the homeless, anti-immigration stances, homo- and transphobia are particularly popular. People here are normally "polite" about it and we seem to all have decided that means it doesn't count. It does count.

Either you're lying about the frequency or your definitions of these terms vary wildly from the mainstream.

The latter I see.

As I said, several of these would fit cleanly into the historical nazi party's platform. A pretty narrow claim that I would certainly not accept about a site I was moderating.

Ok, but if you read the "wolf in sheeps clothing" party program of the nazi party and put it in the context of the aftermath of what the party actually did, you'd realize that they don't actually care about their program and only ever used it as a wedge to blame outgroups for the ills of society.

What I'm trying to say here is that the nazis were outwardly role playing socialists to appease workers, but when it was time to punish the "capitalists" they didn't seem to care whether they were actually capitalists and were more interested in whether a person was part of the ingroup (=white christian Germans) or not. In other words, if capitalism or market economies are rigged, then they only care about whether the economic system is rigged in favor of the ingroup.

The reason why I'm responding to you is that the barrier to a nazi accusation is essentially zero these days and most anti-fascists I've encountered are essentially the spitting mirror image of fascism. They declare an outgroup, but call it nazi this time. Then the anti-fascist logic allows the justification of infinite retaliation. Any shred of being principled is completely thrown out the window.

Because nazis controlled all of Germany for a time, they've done a lot of things that can be attributed to them, which means there are a lot of things you can take about any ordinary person and create a very loose nazi association through motivated reasoning.

Note that in a mirror image, left and right are swapped. They're not the same, but they are eerily similar.

Yep, these days you can be fed Youtube shorts of people arguing the Green Party in Germany are Nazis, while there is an actual party (AfD) that puts hidden hitler moustaches on Alice Weidel in their official fliers. That same party claims Adolf Hitler was a leftist and leftism is bad, which is good, because they're not leftists, but they also happen to like Adolf Hitler.