banned for insignificant banality by peoples with misplaced hyper sensitivity. It's a black mark on the code of conduct not on Tim Peter !

I do not understand why people are reacting as you are, and also downvoting me. I stated facts.

I was actually careful about wording because while my impression is the same as yours I thought it would anger people if I said so.

I'm willing to bet money that the most rabid (scratch that) vocal people who demanded blood, didn't contribute to Python language and Python community 0.0001% of what he did. Just a hunch.

Of course not. People who are busy policing what others do never do much positive.

What actually happened (feel free to look it up), is that Tim got into a series of disagreements with people who wrote things like:

''' Our current board has a majority of people from the Global South or otherwise marginalized groups. That is encouraging and an extremely positive thing. As long as people who are demographically similar to me do not again have a majority, I have the utmost faith in the Board.

As far as I’ve seen, the entire support of this amendment comes from people who look and speak a whole lot like me. People like me should not be trusted. '''

I feel that such people have embarrassed themselves sufficiently over the past few years, and that Tim would not have wanted us to use his obituary to embarrass them further.

I did not know the detail, although my instinct was that it would be much the same as what you say.

What I do not understand is why people are interpreting what I say as supporting those people. I was very careful to just state facts to avoid taking a stance without full knowledge. Is that somehow not acceptable?

> I say this as a person whose family comes from the Northern hemisphere portion of the Global South.

As am I, at least in where I was born and my nationality at birth. I regard "Global South" as horrible, patronising term - although not as bad as "Global Majority" which is worse, if not downright racist IMO.

To be clear, that was the culture everyone was immersed in, but that quote actually comes from[0] one of the people that got banned in the original incident[1]. Not because of the ideology expressed, of course, but because of criticism of the organization's hypocrisy.

[0]: https://discuss.python.org/t/for-your-consideration-proposed...

[1]: https://discuss.python.org/t/why-i-am-withdrawing-fellowship...