Original article deleted because the author elected to poast the article while being angry and white.
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Anonymous2020-06-17 15:40
Systemic racism and Python Wally Rum Mayfield Wally Rum Mayfield Jun 16 · 4 min read
Python is popular for a reason, and it’s not good
I’ve committed a sin in the community today. I lied to the various social media giants about my identity. Today I am lying about my identity. Today I am Wally Mayfield; a shield against the wrath of the people I work with.
I’ve been working in the IT world all of my adult life. During my 20 years of working in this field I’ve had to keep my mouth shut about a few things that are important to me. Today I lied because I feel like this is a story that needs to be told.
Telling my story puts me at risk from the ville underbelly of IT. A cancer has grown in this world which appears to have been missed by everyone. I’m not talking just about the systemic racism or sexism in the business; these seem to be well covered by everyone at this point.
I’m talking about a cancer at the very core of the very companies I’ve lied to. The Python programming language is at the center of this cancer.
“But we love python!” As well you should, it’s a clear, well organized, fast language. However, what you probably didn’t realize is how bad things have gotten over the years. History
Python began its humble beginnings as most things in the open source world: a single person had an idea to make a complex thing easier to approach. Guido van Rossum started the project way back in the 1980’s. I’m sure I don’t have to point out that this is yet another privileged white male at “the head of the snake” as it were.
What sets Python apart from other programming languages is its origin in visual perfection. To quote Mr. Rossum’s own design ideas behind Python:
“Beautiful is better than ugly.”
This is the central core of my gripe with Python. Every other language in use today couldn’t give two flicks about how the code looks. You can write sloppy, unorganized Java code all day long and it’ll still compile.
But Python is different, Python requires that your code conform to a very specific standard of beauty. A standard which, as fate would have it, was created and driven by the once self-proclaimed “ Benevolent Dictator For Life.”
Lovely.
The creator of this mess, and the Python community in general have offered up their mea culpa admission to having “inappropriate” language embedded into their software. Terms like slave and master, are slowly being worked out of the language. Popularity
Python is very popular indeed. The STEM field is littered with python code, and for good reason. I’m not trying to make the case that Python is, by its nature racist, but I do think there is a racist-adjacent problem in the community.
Whenever I’m in a meeting discussing the direction of a product, or the cause of problem, or whatever, I’m often catching myself counting the number of men in the room who are probably going to be either racist, or just assholes. It’s rarely ever a surprise when I find out that they also love their Python environment.
Most of the major companies in the Valley have a significant load of Python code to make their operations happen.
Needless to say, Python is very popular. Conclusion
As I stated above, I’ve lied about who I am in fear of the wrath of this mostly white, mostly asshole community of probably racist people. I don’t often write blogs like this, so I apologize in advance if this comes off as choppy or unreadable.
I felt like I needed to speak my truth and hope someone is able to hear this message.
What I’ve observed in my 20 years in this business is that attitudes matter. And when I see people bending over backwards to use a programming language that puts looks over character, I really have to wonder if the people writing the code are just extending that attitude to the world around them.
A lot has been said about the social problems of white privilege as of late. But for me, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. What I’ve seen is perfectly reasonable allies playing out the “looks over character” paradigm all over the world and not even knowing it.
Next time you hear about some company or person using Python, ask yourself, really get curious about their bias. Chances are very good that an evil is lurking just under the surface that they’re not even aware of.
It’s not at all surprising that the “don’t tread on me” meme is a giant snake. Honestly, when I saw my first “don’t tread on me” flag, I just assumed they were all programmers. Then when people started to shout “learn to code” I just assumed they were talking about Python, because why wouldn’t they?
Python programs you to be evil.
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Anonymous2020-06-17 16:18
This is a great argument to switch to Haskell or something even more esoteric(Epigram,Ciao,Idris?) to escape intellectual minorities.
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Anonymous2020-06-17 16:35
>>4 Haskell is the friendliest language towards the Black people. Literally the least white language today. Also named after a Jewish person with strong anti-racist views.
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Anonymous2020-06-17 16:54
So what are the languages that are safe from Discord trannies and minority pull requests? C++?
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Anonymous2020-06-17 17:59
>>6 Coq, Agda, Prolog, OCaml, Scheme. Basically any strong comp-sci language. These have no humanities people in the community.
Mainstream languages have to be politicized. Although JavaScript surprisingly has a neo-Nazi author. Brendan Eich funded anti-LGBTQ lawmakers. But they sacked him due to that.
Imagine you're a gay webdev. Most webdevs are gay. Because it is an artsy occupation attracting non-STEM people. One day you learn a nasty fact about your fav browser author. He is actually the Hitler himself reborn in disguise. Secretly working on a plan to send all gays into death camps.
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Anonymous2020-06-17 19:32
This BLM malarkey will cause a massive "white flight" into underappreciated and esoteric languages and frameworks. The steeper the learning curve and more obscure it is, the barrier for twatter intellectuals rises exponentially. Now, it will also cause mainstream projects to get into "maintaince mode" and code rot prevention, as key developers leave elsewhere: The beauty of open source projects is that you can easily abandon it in a minute and hold 0 obligations to users.
Have you completed your paired FART session yet today, anon?
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Anonymous2020-06-19 17:20
>>7 >Coq, Agda, Prolog, OCaml, Scheme. >Basically any strong comp-sci language. >These have no humanities people in the community.
Actually these types of languages have more trannies than usual. But they're all just mentally ill white men. When you start going into the webdev space with Ruby, JavaScript, etc. you start encountering actual niggers.
About the only place you can white flight to are the Muslim/Pajeet/boomer langs like Java, C#, COBOL, VB.NET, FORTRAN, etc. which are too "boring" (useful) for trannies and niggers.
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Anonymous2020-06-19 18:00
>>14 idk how people like you haven't killed themselves yet
Richard Bertrand Spencer (born 1978) is an American neo-Nazi,[1][2] anti-semitic conspiracy theorist and white supremacist received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Music from the University of Virginia and, in 2003, a Master of Arts in the Humanities from the University of Chicago.[30][32] From the summer of 2005 into 2006, Spencer attended Vienna International Summer University.[32] From 2005 to 2007, he was a PhD student in Modern European intellectual history at Duke University.
history majors are probably all Nazis to some degree.
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Anonymous2020-06-20 17:53
its 2020 Statues are inherently racist and history is a social construct.
>>23 Muhammad was a slave owner. I'm ok with burning his book and all of his followers.
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Anonymous2020-06-20 20:05
Only white people thought it was cool to forbid slavery. There are still many slave owners in the Middle East and in Africa. Carpet bombing them into annihilation would benefit humanity. African Americans are the descendant of slaves. African Africans are the descendants of the tribes who captured and traded them.
>>26 Here's a QRD >violent ugly nigger dies from a mix of COVID, AIDS and Meth >antifas and nigger burn cities >discord trannies believe it's the revolution >they shill day and night in every possible place I don't care, I'm still voting Trump.
>>32 With thirty million job losses and counting he can't afford to hold an election, without starting a foreign war first. Either that or he suspends the election, since those thirty million will not vote for the largest job loss president.
>>30 Smart people don't join the authoritarian movements to start with. In NSDAP only Hitler and a few of his close associates very smart enough. Others smart people were either beaten into submission, executed or kept actively sabotaging Nazism.
Same with USSR. When the large part of people got educated enough and demanded human rights, it has just fallen apart.
When the large part of people got educated enough and demanded human rights, it has just fallen apart.
It was a bit more complicated than that. The system collapses when you lose the support of the army, such as because you no longer have the money to pay army wages due to economic sanctions.
USSR
Here's an oldie from the USSR that applies equally well to RWAF tribesmen. Q: Why are the police sent out in groups of three? A: One of them can read, one of them can write, and the third one is there to keep an eye on the two intellectuals.