Spotted on twitter: Rust user enthusiastically blogs about moving to D

[Soulsbane via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 7 March 2017 at 03:04:05 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> https://z0ltan.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/goodbye-rust-and-hello-d/

Very welcoming and helpful community that actually focuses on the 
technical side of things rather than getting sidetracked by 
social causes

What does he mean by sidetracked by social causes? I've seen this 
mentioned before. Is this a big thing in the Rust community?