On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 9:51 PM Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
But the text in question said nothing about gender issues -- it was about race issues.  Can anyone shed light on that?  If there is something I need to learn I would like to learn it.

Exactly. 

The explanation so far has been that it is not S&W that is a relic of white supremacy. The Standard English, which it advocates, is. Explaining how that is would make the commit message sensible, to me at least. (though the fact that the description of the PR differs from the commit message was problematic nonetheless.)