FWIW, I would put the actions of the committer for 90% in the area of trolling. The committer is a great proponent of free speech, and uses this to prove that there is no free speech anymore (and choose his friends accordingly).
The fact that this may or not be true, doesn't matter to him. Nor that he damages the Raku community with this (as well as the Perl community).
However, that this even applies to TPF / the Perl community, is mostly mr. Riedel work, using this trolling for his own agenda (which is reforming The Perl Foundation). The matter has been dealt with within the Raku community already. And Mr. Riedel should know that.
Now, there is that final 10%. Whether the committer knows this or not, he does show some other tendencies that could be considered racist. But in a country like the Netherlands, that is still trying to deal with "Zwarte Piet" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet) this is sadly not as uncommon as it should be.
The fact that this may or not be true, doesn't matter to him. Nor that he damages the Raku community with this (as well as the Perl community).
However, that this even applies to TPF / the Perl community, is mostly mr. Riedel work, using this trolling for his own agenda (which is reforming The Perl Foundation). The matter has been dealt with within the Raku community already. And Mr. Riedel should know that.
Now, there is that final 10%. Whether the committer knows this or not, he does show some other tendencies that could be considered racist. But in a country like the Netherlands, that is still trying to deal with "Zwarte Piet" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet) this is sadly not as uncommon as it should be.