You left out that he contrasted this with DEI. That is a strongly political stance that to a lot of us is extreme. You're not convincing anyone here. If anything being defended with rants like this is likely to make people even more unwilling to consider this project. I certainly won't touch a project that attracts this kind of defence.
I directly mentioned DEI, obviously i didn't leave it out.
If you support red hat's DEI program then you are defending systematic discrimination on the basis of race and other immutable characteristics. This is an ultimately indefensible position, and one that will come back to bite you. There is nothing extreme about this position unless you are a racist extremist yourself.
You are as a human being morally bankrupt if you're willing to touch a company with multiple active discrimination lawsuits that has shown zero remorse or policy changes, but are pretending that someone mentioning DEI is a real problem (the tool which was used to implement that illegal discrimination, which he personally had to deal with.) People have an inalienable right to defend themselves in every case.
