First of all full disclosure, I just want to apologize ahead of time to anybody who finds what I am about to say offensive. I understand politics are really important to a lot of people (especially right now) so I understand how just my suggestion of this might offend people who care a lot about the issue. And for that I sincerely do apologize to anybody here who might find what I am about to say offensive.
But with that being said, I full heartedly believe that what I am about to say is extremely important towards trying to maintain the healthy culture we've all been working to build for the last 10 years. Leave your politics at home where they belong. This ad should have never been put up to begin with because frankly this community is far more important (and far larger) than America's general incapability to get along with one another. When I type golang.org into my browser and click send, I view this as my escape hatch from the absolutely and obnoxiously too loud world were constantly forced to listen to, because frankly social media decided to give everybody megaphones and started rewarding people with fame for being smart enough (and more concerning physically attractive enough) to promote a message that can be heard through all the noise pollution. So honestly, while I didn't say anything about it, but honestly when I saw the ad a few weeks before the election it seriously broke my heart. It didn't piss me off, it made me literally want to cry, not because I don't believe we shouldn't do more to help fight poverty (because the reality is that while we might have a racism problem in America, we definitely have a poverty problem and the later is far easier to quantify and effectively address) but because I literally thought we all understood, in our community the only thing we could care less about than how you'd all band together to vote politically, is how you'd all band together to vote for "quality of life" additions to the language that would probably ruin it. As a registered Republican (but not really a Trump supporter) I am going to say that Black Lives Matter, but not more than this community being impartial to the radical notion that we have to be willing to accept even white supremacists into our ranks, if they like to code in the best programming language on the planet. Because frankly it is through a united, loving and deliberately NON-PARTISANLY inclusive community structure that ultimately allows us to defeat them at their own game. All I am saying is we need to take down the "conservatives not welcome here" sign. And if me saying that offends you, then like I said I am sorry, but imagine if that tag said "have you been to church lately?" and asked you to donate to Chris Pratt's church because that is align with the political campaign strategy that aimed to keep Trump in office, when all you want to do is think about creative ways to move bits around. -- 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/d1ed0301-bacc-45dc-b47c-a3b33026b55cn%40googlegroups.com.
