The title is "bombastic"; yes, a slight edit, but one that changes the meaning, especially taken out of context. What he said was that if a maintainer doesn't want to deal with Rust they don't have to deal with Rust but they also don't get to tell users of the code they maintain how (or whether) to use Rust.

> If you don't want to deal with the Rust code, you get no say on the Rust code.

FWIW, I think C++ would be much better suited for the Linux Kernel than Rust, and so much easier for C developers to adopt.