I find it off-putting to have politics as the third thing on the home page though. Makes me think there is going to be a scissor that cuts the community apart at some point.
("As a Gleam community, we need to have a position on Israel-Palestine!")
Bravo to this community for being explicit about it.
" As a community, we want to be friendly too. People from around the world, of all backgrounds, genders, and experience levels are welcome and respected equally. See our community code of conduct for more.
Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. No nazi bullsh*t. "
Considering quite a few contributors in the Gleam community are LGBTQ+ it's seems justified that they want to stand for their contributors rights and safety.
I'm a BLM skeptic because it seems pretty clear to me that the movement has distracted everyone from the real issues of police brutality, under training, and militarization. It's distracting from the real issue of declining social mobility in the US, and it's blaming racism at the same time as nigerian immigrants are falsifying that premise clearly.
Making these things into identity issue means we aren't making progress as we aren't talking about them, we're just screaming at each other and blaming the other side.
People who want to stop people from dying by taking the problem seriously: "nazis". :(
Says more about you than the project.
It isn't the case that even if everyone agrees on the BLM, Trans rights, and the outcome of WWII will agree on future issues of the day. Thier stance sets up an expectation that the language should have an official position on these topics.
I even gave an example.
A community that fosters professionalism rather than explicit ideology won't have this problem.
It's pretty much the same as don't enter into professional relations with the local mafia, it's mostly a matter of scale and available weaponry.
If I recruit you into my organisation I trust that you will not bring in criminals into our enterprise. I would not hire you if I thought that it could bring attention from the fuzz or expose us to extortion.