tl;dr: the website showed the quote “Full-screen Neovim looks cool as hell!” by some programmer with political views. After initial pushback it eventually got removed

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elektronika an hour ago | parent [-]

> programmer with political views

It's dishonest to downplay what his "political views" entail. He compared the removal of minorities to pest extermination.

> When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them.

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wongarsu 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

In my view the core of the "drama" is about whether quoting an unpolitical statement of a person endorses the person as a whole, including their political views.

The maintainer who originally responded to the github issue clearly thinks that it does not. The reporter and Twitter mob think that it does

Whether we disagree with his political views (I hope so) and how political a project like neovim is would be questions to answer once agreement on the first question is reached

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s1artibartfast an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	db48x an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The people who say that he is racist or fascist don’t believe that immigration can be illegal. That is, they believe that all migration should be allowed all of the time, and that successful countries should not be allowed to keep people out.