Well immigrants from Scotland brought the Halloween celebration with them which over time turned into the Halloween celebration in America we know today . Then American corporations figured out how to monetise it in the form of candy and costumes then sold it back to the Brits in the form in commercialised goods . And I can assure you Thanksgiving can be quite nice . The corporate powers that be have foisted Black Friday on Britain which is shit , its shit in the States and brings out the worst in people . Dump Black Friday ! <| sep |> There ' s absolutely a nasty arrogantcondescending communication style that tends to show up in certain areas of programming culture . Zed Shaw indulges in it constantly . Eevee does it . pretty much never , that I ' ve seen . I agree that that style is harmful and should be deprecated but that doesn ' t mean we have to always be nice . Sometimes it means we have to call people out on their nastiness . It seemed 100 % clear to me from the blog post that she wasn ' t throwing around language like that as empty macho posturing , but because she ' d assessed what he was doing libeling the entire Python dev team , making up incoherent nonsense to terrify defenseless beginners , with a side order of intellectually dishonest rhetoric , come to the rational conclusion that it was reprehensible and he should be ashamed of himself , and expressed that using a few wellchosen sentences at the end of a thoughtful response . This is totally different from claiming that there are no issues with Python 3 . There are tons and tons of thoughtful discussions already available about the tradeoffs in Python 3 , and in my experience then Python devs are happy to have more of them if that ' s the conversation you want to have . But it ' s pretty obvious that Zed isn ' t trying to start a thoughtful conversation .