Bug#1035100: Unrelated political statement in main UI

[Aaron Rainbolt]

I agree that the Debian Code of Conduct is not violated by this
content. On top of that, if you're trying to remain politically
neutral, the best thing you can do is not even *touch*
politically-charged parts of applications, because in so doing you may
be taking a stand *against* whatever the application was originally
pushing. Shipping an application as provided isn't going to make
reasonable people mad even if the application has content you disagree
with. Shipping a modified version of an application that has some
particular messaging torn out is much more likely to make reasonable
people upset. There's other politically and religiously charged
content in Debian (apt-cache show anarchism), and I personally use at
least one application (Xiphos) that is religion-centric. We don't strip
out bits of those packages for non-technical reasons.

If a particular user or community of users finds the message in
Thonny's main UI offensive, they are more than welcome to strip it out
themselves. Debian provides all the tools needed for the end-user to
repackage the application.
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