Anything that involves many people working together will involve politics. There is no escaping that.
Certainly many such endeavors try to keep politics (and religion) out of their proceedings and considerations. But given that there is no escaping politics maybe it's a good I idea for a community, like Rust's, to acknowledge that up front.
This can of course have it's downsides as well, as Brendan Eich discovered. I'm sure there are many here nervously censoring everything they write knowing that if they let some opinion they hold escape they would be hounded out of the house.
What I want to know is: Who actually is Rust Language / @rustlang? posting on twitter and wherever else?
Clearly a programming language cannot have political views. This is an actual person. Apparently speaking on be half of the Rust devs or the Rust community at large. Do they?