The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program (pyfound.blogspot.com)
from irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to programming@programming.dev on 27 Oct 17:59
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breakcore@discuss.tchncs.de on 27 Oct 18:40 next collapse

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!

Jankatarch@lemmy.world on 27 Oct 21:52 collapse

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?

yoevli@lemmy.world on 28 Oct 15:18 collapse

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.

FizzyOrange@programming.dev on 28 Oct 18:46 collapse

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.

Miaou@jlai.lu on 28 Oct 19:50 collapse

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

FizzyOrange@programming.dev on 28 Oct 22:58 collapse

There are some examples in the very first list I found googling for “cancel culture examples”.

Not all of them are political (e.g. cancelling someone for sexual assault is clearly not, and that Heineken one… how??), but a decent number are, e.g. number 6 is about as partisan as you can get.