Does D have any political goals?

thebluepandabear therealbluepandabear at protonmail.com
Wed Nov 16 21:55:59 UTC 2022


On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 21:47:23 UTC, Throwaway wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 21:39:04 UTC, 
> thebluepandabear wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 21:08:09 UTC, 
>> thebluepandabear wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 21:05:44 UTC, Yawn wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 20:24:17 UTC, An Actual 
>>>> Human Being wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>> What's actually wrong with you all?
>>>>
>>>> Nothing.  Just that the D forums really aren't the right 
>>>> place for pursuing your political agenda and/or social 
>>>> concerns, and you're not gonna get anywhere by posting them 
>>>> here. Take them to a forum dedicated to discussing these 
>>>> issues and you'll have better luck.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>> being a total asshole and bigots
>>>> [...]
>>>>> people in help of being marginalized.
>>>> [...]
>>>>> the most unlikable beings I've ever encountered.
>>>> [...]
>>>>> you'll also become actual human beings in the future.
>>>> [...]
>>>>> An Actual Human Being.
>>>>
>>>> Wow.  So you're the only "actual human being" and everyone 
>>>> who disagrees with you (or agrees with you but understands 
>>>> that the D forums aren't the right place for this stuff) is 
>>>> a non-human being. And you're the only one being 
>>>> "marginalized" while in one fell swoop you are marginalizing 
>>>> everybody else as "assholes", "bigots" and "most unlikable 
>>>> beings" (i.e., not "actual humans").  You go on the ad 
>>>> hominem and we're supposed to just swallow your agenda as 
>>>> you shove them down our throats on a forum that isn't even 
>>>> for this purpose -- because you're the human and we are not.
>>>>
>>>> No hypocrisy here, none at all. Sheesh.
>>>
>>> One hundred percent argue with you, I am glad that people are 
>>> standing up to that person's insane way of thinking that all 
>>> D should do is ponder to a community which we actually have 
>>> NO issue with, I actually have no ISSUE with gay people or 
>>> trans people, these people like to INVENT issues that don't 
>>> even exist so that they can turn the community into a social 
>>> justice type thing, that's all.
>>
>> And I want to repeat this again, this person's 'issues' with 
>> the D community not being friendly towards trans people or 
>> whatever are UNFOUNDED NONSENSE claims.
>>
>> AS A NEWCOMER, I actually found the D community to be VERY 
>> nice and welcoming towards anyone, I did not see any 
>> discrimination towards anyone basis on their skin color, 
>> religion, sexual orientation, gender, whether or not they are 
>> trans, I saw none of that.
>>
>> In fact, we don't even talk about it because IT'S NOT 
>> IMPORTANT.
>>
>> YOU are making it important, when in reality NO ONE cares.
>>
>> In fact, just because D doesn't openly say that they are 
>> friendly towards minorities does not mean that they aren't, 
>> because it's just common bloody sense!
>>
>> And no I'm not an old boomer saying this, I'm almost 17, so 
>> don't pull that card on me.,
>
> As a person who has soured on the Rust community, I agree with 
> your principles. I hate how some people have injected 
> themselves into every conversation, demanding society bend to 
> their wills like the idiots they are. I detest how so many 
> programming languages have become politically correct. I think 
> a programming community should focus purely on programming, and 
> welcome "bigots", "discriminatory behavior", "racists", "Nazis" 
> in without caring about them.
>
> It should not matter what our political ideals are, we should 
> not express it these forums. No more mandatory and forced 
> pronoun usages. I don't care about people's skin color, sexual 
> orientation, religion, or gender either, and I don't care if 
> other people do or don't care. I don't care if you hate trans 
> people or if you hate black people or if you simply don't care, 
> we should just simply focus on D here. The amount of politics 
> injected into this thread is disgusting, for a community that 
> claims to be apolitical.
>
> Rust is a programming language that has no value beyond simply 
> pushing an agenda. I hope D does not stray from their goals of 
> creating a better language that will stand the test of 1000 
> years.

I agree with you on this.

These people make their ways to a lot of communities and destroy 
them.

Unless we openly push back against this madness it will not end.


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