The Go community includes programmers of all races, nationalities and cultures. Every member of the community has the right to go about their daily lives without being killed by the police force.
I applaud the decisions of the Go team to take a public stand in favour of this right. I am surprised that some here have argued that they should not have made such a political statement out of respect for people abroad. As a Go programmer who lives and works abroad, I can report that hundreds of thousands have marched here (in the UK), and in many other countries in support of this right. Some here have argued that supporting BLM is considered crime by some regimes. In the US thousands have been arrested and 12 have been killed by police in BLM protests. We could allow ourselves to be intimidated into silence. But I, for one, am please that the Go team is prepared to stand up and be counted. On Sunday, 14 June 2020 14:36:38 UTC+1, peterGo wrote: > > Recently, a political message with a fundraising link appeared as a banner > atop golang.org websites: https://golang.org/, https://pkg.go.dev/. > > content/static: add Black Lives Matter banner to top of site > https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/website/+/237589 > > <div class="Header-banner"> > Black Lives Matter. > <a href="https://support.eji.org/give/153413/#!/donation/checkout"; > target="_blank" > rel="noopener">Support the Equal Justice Initiative.</a> > </div> > > How was this decision made? > > Go is a programming language. For political fundraising use personal > Twitter and Facebook accounts. > > Peter > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/c0c41324-0df6-40d9-9804-5733c1c4df4ao%40googlegroups.com.
