The thing about Rust that people often forget is that if you're OK with sacrificing a bit of Performance for Memory Safety (which is majority cases), you don't need Rust. You can use any managed language like C#, Java, Go, etc, and don't use an insufferable Reddit Mod compiler.
I don’t buy this argument at all because it presumes equivalence of bigotry and the rejection of bigotry
We as a society have given bigotry a pass for too long. Especially on post-Twitter! Bigotry is always morally repugnant, and so countering it is therefore The High Ground
People aren’t ready for this conversation, but… if software “engineering” is ever going to be Big Boy Engineering, rewriting in rust is the least of C enthusiasts’ worries