[phoronixrly]

> Not even sure why you are being downvoted, this is such a great idea actually.

Expressing negative opinions about DHH is not well-received here.

Oddly enough the Ruby community includes both the most thoughtful and gentle people and the biggest assholes I know... I refuse to believe the latter are not fringe.

[Imustaskforhelp]

Yes I absolutely hate DHH as well

and in fact I was using omarchy but then migrated over to cachyos hyprland

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug...

DHH is not a good guy but the hype around him made me feel so. He's weird and racist and fascist.

Stop the hype around dhh and everyone please read the article everybody here's DHH reality

Let’s ditch the superlatives and review David’s post objectively:

    He thinks that even if you were born in the UK, you only count as British if you’re white.
    He wouldn’t consider living in London specifically because it has too many people of color.
    He uses racist tropes to accuse Asian men of being dangerous predators who attack white women.
    He pushes debunked conspiracy theories about immigrants replacing white people.
    He finds a march where speakers called for banning all non-Christian religions and ethnically cleansing immigrants “heartwarming”.
    Finally — and maybe most alarmingly — he argues that all of the above is normal and not extreme.

You can use whatever word you want to describe all that. But if you, like me, didn’t realize that this is who DHH is, we can probably agree that he’s way worse than we thought.

The above lines were from the article

This guy shouldn't remotely be talked about in a good light imo, yes I appreciate open source but I can't seperate the art from the artist.

I genuinely don't know why they defend this guy.

HN literally flaged this post in literal minutes when it had come out but I was lucky to have read it and I will continue to spread this word because HN's moderators seem to flag anything like this and its kinda sick and enabling behaviour really

They will allow the post that cf is sponsoring omarchy promotion thing or omarchy links in general but not a dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/and I was surprised by how quickly they deleted the post that after I had read that post, it got flagged and I couldn't even write a comment.

A little bit Shocking if I can be honest.

I was on omarchy but now I am on cachyos hyprland and I learnt some custom live iso stuff too, I might make an article about it... I edited this because maybe I got a little angry towards DHH but I genuinely don't like the guy. I genuinely admired him as a person untill I found about it and I have strong opinions on him.

I think its the paradox of tolerance, should we as a society be tolerant to the intolerant people?

[aeon_ai]

You’re taking the interpretation of the author of that article as the words that DHH said.

Do you legitimately believe DHH would say those are his beliefs?

[Imustaskforhelp]

I hope that you have read the article but they have given a sound reasoning behind it.

DHH mentions 39% or something which was the population of native white and not native british as an example...

Please read the article link and they have given a proper sound reasoning...

>Do you legitimately believe DHH would say those are his beliefs?

Yes, I mean, DHH wrote it in his own blog post. There is still an argument to be made that DHH is far right but even he knows that it is bad and somehow tries to normalize it...

DHH might not say that these are his beliefs but his words in his blogs logically point to this conclusion. Why do you think that DHH said those words in his blogpost if he doesn't believe in such similar far right ideologies? Nobody forced him to write a blog post but himself...

Why do you think such things are not what DHH believes in? Do you have any evidence as the author of the article provides for their reasoning/interpretation?

[aeon_ai]

> Why do you think such things are not what DHH believes in?

Because the one thing DHH doesn't do is shut up.

He hasn't really been the kind of person who minces words, he says what he thinks, and he is pretty unafraid of pissing people off. If he wanted to make explicit racist statements, it feels like he would make them.

My read is that this is broader commentary on civic/cultural integration. There are, fundamentally, immigration challenges that present themselves in modern society, especially when cultural values are different. I don't know that it's wise to believe that everyone will eventually see the world the same way, and we are then left with a question of how to reconcile that as we develop our societies and cultures.

Tommy Robinson is a violent anti-Islamic voice -- But, we've unfortunately found ourselves with those voices being the ones willing to speak to the problem that a growing portion of the population feels is unaddressed.

I don't think these are easy problems. I also cringe at calling Robinson's march "heartwarming" without qualification.

Yet I still am not willing to, without much stronger and more explicit evidence, read into DHH's words and label him a `far-right racist` -- Because I think that label loses effect when it's applied to every person that we disagree with on certain policy issues.