breaking my month-long depressive silence to state:

this was the plan all along, actually. I am being purposefully inflammatory. the entire idea was to centralize the PL community in one place and irrevocably intertwine it with revolutionary politics via moderation policy that reflects that, ergo creating a schism in the community that needs to be addressed as a whole in order for marginalized groups to find their place within it.

in essence, if you disagree with our moderation policy, you've more or less put yourself on a list of people who marginalized groups interested in programming languages know to avoid.

I am very okay with the idea of dividing the PL community into an explicitly leftist space being the hill that my entire career dies on.

not only that, but I think it's very important that the moderation team assembled here is entirely comprised of groups in a similar vein who run in contrast with bigoted figures in the programming languages community, because in essence when running types.pl I am creating a space *I* feel safe in, and when mixed with the intersections of other moderators it turns into a space that a large swath of people feel safe in.