I see your point about social justice, but I think it isn't a great example. While there were and are some committed racist and misogynist individuals in the w

I see your point about social justice, but I think it isn't a great example. While there were and are some committed racist and misogynist individuals in the world, by and large people as well as organizations were indifferent. They didn't have any position to speak of, and so they were blindsided and easily swayed when the shaming and contempt came around. They said "hey, that's not us, we're not like that!" and fell in line with the social justice position. Programming language communities, on the other hand, have a real investment in their language of choice. It's not that they're indifferent to the issue of whether PHP is a terrible language; they actively choose PHP, so when they're attacked they move to defend.