It’s because many of the people who hate on Rust and Wayland do so because they think these technologies are somehow too “woke” and not for any technical reason. I have no actual numbers for this though, it’s just anecdotal based on my experience with a few popular YouTube videos I came across. And it looks like lots of others agree, so this meme comes off as political, even if that’s not what was intended.

Using cheap/free options to get an open source non-profit social media app off the ground is imperialism now 😭

Poor Mali deserves reparations for the domain name we ripped from their children, all posts shall now start with a land acknowledgement 😂

God you guys are hilarious sometimes