>After the Node incident, it's highly likely Ashley Williams is involved again due to her propensity for racism and sexism.

I didn't know what this was referring to so I looked it up.

Here's a Reddit thread which seems to be the genesis of the complaint (an archive link because the actual post was removed)

https://archive.md/VEtHu

Link to original Reddit thread

https://old.reddit.com/r/node/comments/6whs2e/multiple_coc_v...

NodeJS GitHub issue thread

https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/324

HN threads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16085545

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15115989

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16073017

If it turns out that she was involved or the reason for that, the rust foundation and core team will look really bad. And things usually get public over time. But right now it's just vage drama.