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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program (pyfound.blogspot.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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https://fosstodon.org/users/ThePSF/statuses/115446659188615376

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[–] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Amazing, very good decision.

They do ask for donations, and what a time to donate, to show that moral and human choices should be weighted as they have been done in this situation!

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Reading the article is wild. They were accepted for the grant. It's a cybersecurity grant too. Tools like npm will also benefit from it. Great!

    But then government attached the conditon python foundation stops quote on quote "promoting DEI activities."

    And if a lawyer decides some random thing is DEI, Python foundation would possibly owe financial debt to the government

    Is it even a donation at this point?

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    • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    This culture war shit is pathetic. "DEI" has become a dogwhistle (if one can even call it that at this point) for "I don't like black people/brown people/women", and they all shamelessly parrot it with their whole chest. Good on the PSF for doing the right thing and calling this garbage out for what it is.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's a fairly inevitable reaction to cancel culture. This was predicted and warned against when left-wing cancel culture was at its height, but people didn't listen. Now we have right-wing cancel culture instead.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I don't think I've seen left wing cancel culture in my lifetime. I doubt it has ever happened in the USA at all, actually

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