While it is finding humor in a horrible situation, a Rust joke is not attacking race, creed, gender, etc as is so common from the internet dregs.
Edit: the above has now been edited to note slurs which was not previously present. At the time the quoted joke was only “Rust devs did it”
I know it isn't worded that way and you didn't mean it that way but if you look at the stats it technically is https://blog.rust-lang.org/images/2024-02-rust-survey-2023/w...
If I say "murderers suck", and 85% of murderers happen to be men, am I "attacking" men as a group?
No, but what's disgusting is that both sides of the argument will come up with different reasons why it's not.
For starters, I don't see "I don't consider myself a member of a minority or under represented group".
Even if you only compare with the 18-29 demographic, where the prevalence is higher at 5.6%, it's still 6x as high in the Rust community.
The percentage is greater but few will admit to it.
If 1/3 of people have a trait, you'll get a good sense it's common after asking 300 people, even if the total population is a million. Surveying more gives diminishing returns as the result quickly converges on the real proportion.
The real problem with all surveys is the sampling isn't truly random, which skews results.