While there's certainly drama of technical and personality in many projects, are there any languages that we can see evidence of "insanity of western politics" being present?

There are literally people in this thread saying they wouldnt use ruby if dhh became lead because of his politics. Ruby in the west it seems to come up a lot. Mozilla/JS it came up with brendan eich being fired for his politics. Mostly its against anyone that steps out of line with far left san fransisco politics.

i don't think it's unreasonable to not want someone who has a habit of ranting about "Pakistani rape gangs" on twitter to represent/head a community project. Especially one that has contributions from people all over the world. Even ethics aside it's just bad business