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What does 'facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers' mean?

Here 'diversity' refers to race/ethnicity.

If you don't think so, the PSF do, because its their explicit reason for their lawyers declining the grant. It's also the plain meaning of the term in this context.

Yes, the foundation for a programming language has a mission which involves the racial composition of its user base. Yes, this is entirely in-keeping with their comms and practices over the last few years, if you are at all aware of how they've acted.



You're the one applying that extremely narrow definition of diversity here.


No one in this partisan political thread has explained why the foundation for a programming language has a mission involving 'diversity' of people in any sense.

The laywers for the PSF decided that this mission is inconsistent with the government mandate. The PSF did NOT just decline the money.

This entire thread is one big group-think hate dump and has nothing to do with the PSF or why they were legally unable to accept goverment funding conditioned on non-discriminatory practices.




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