I'm gonna be honest, based on this thread it sounds more like the CoC is repelling people that are really into culture wars and internet drama.
Whatever confirms your priors.
What is interesting here is that most likely I am on the same side of the political aisle as the people there.
I still find that sort of talk insufferable. Gives me mid-2010s "woke" bullshit vibes (god the slang of my contemporaries is horrid).
Culture wars come up in every Gleam thread. How often do you see culture war comments in a Rust, Elixir, Javascript, Etc thread? Essentially never. The Gleam founder's bigotry is a distraction at best.