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It's sad that the Equal Justice Initiative[0] (linked by the Go homepage) is considered partisan. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Justice_Initiative ht
by radlad 5y ago
It's sad that the Equal Justice Initiative[0] (linked by the Go homepage) is considered partisan.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Justice_Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Justice_Initiative
- ptsneves 5y agoIt is also completely unrelated to a programing language, so the commenter's grievance seems founded.
- anandrew 5y agoThe full statement on golang.org is: "Black Lives Matter. Support the Equal Justice Initiative." Perhaps the poster was referring to the first half?
- malaya_zemlya 5y agoi think the parent was referring to https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45970 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45970
- throwaway894345 5y agoYes, this is what I was talking about. Shame on me for thinking people wouldn't overlook the first three words of the banner. (:
- radlad 5y agoI was trying to give the benefit of the doubt. It still surprises me that the phrase "black lives matter" is partisan.
- throwaway894345 5y agoIt really shouldn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29308714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29308714
- makomk 5y agoAt this point, the slogan "black lives matter" seems to be more of a partisan talking point than any kind of indication that the person using it does, in fact, consider black lives to actually matter. Up to and including shooting white people somehow being more of an attack on the notion that black lives matter than shooting and killing a black teenager, just because of the perceived partisan affiliation of the shooters...
- pc86 5y agoI mean they certainly have a partisan stance re: prisons and incarceration. Not to say whether it's a good stance or not, but it's certainly partisan. Partisan doesn't mean "I disagree with this." But whatever it is and whatever your opinion of it, it's hard to make a cogent argument that it belongs as a banner on the front page of a programming language website.
- radlad 5y ago> I mean they certainly have a partisan stance re: prisons and incarceration. I did not realize that providing counsel to inmates was a partisan issue. > But whatever it is and whatever your opinion of it, it's hard to make a cogent argument that it belongs as a banner on the front page of a programming language website. This is unrelated to my comment.
- pc86 5y agoUnrelated to your comment maybe, but not the thread. It's certainly germane whether your choose to acknowledge it or not. I'm clearly not referring to "providing counsel" and it takes only 10-15 seconds of reading their homepage to see policy positions that any reasonable person could consider partisan. But nice straw man. Let me know when you're interested in an actual discussion and not this nonsense.
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