A simple message was posted: "Black Lives Matter. Support the Equal Justice Initiative".
I understand that this is controversial to say in some quarters. I am saddened that this is controversial to say here. Rust developers succinctly captured why it is appropo to say in https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/06/04/Rust-1.44.0.html, and I quote: "The Rust Core Team believes that tech is and always will be political ..." If some renowned member of our go community were being publicly treated sub-par and golang.org posted a message of support for that member, no one would bat an eye. Let's have the same empathy here, and not split hairs on semantics. >From one proud black member of this community to the other members, we could really do without the public display of disapproval right now. It's a very sensitive time. Thank you. On Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 9:36:38 AM UTC-4, 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/0f206ac1-b34c-4726-a0ee-2db9afc79b02o%40googlegroups.com.
