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by throwawaypath 226 days ago
>DHH has repeatedly shown he's a bad actor

No he hasn't. Holding heterodox opinions isn't being "a bad actor."

>He will continue to drive away sane people from the communities he's a part of.

He's driven insane people from the communities he's a part of. Sane people will flock to them.

>He has also quite clearly taken a nazi or ethnonationalist stance.

No he hasn't. There's nothing wrong with promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous people over those of immigrants or foreigners.

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The bad actor part is e.g. shutting down review processes in his company when they contradict his beliefs, and plotting to oust people from RubyGems for having the wrong political beliefs.

And he is an ethnonationalist. In "As I remember London", he claimed Britain was a third native brit, then backed it up with a wikipedia link showing a third of London was white. So in DHH's mind white = British. There's no other way to interpret that, and he hasn't corrected it.

>The bad actor part is e.g. shutting down review processes in his company when they contradict his beliefs

His company, his rules. He banned activist employees from using work as a platform to proselytize their grievance politics.

>In "As I remember London", he claimed Britain was a third native brit, then backed it up with a wikipedia link showing a third of London was white.

This is what happens when you only read posts on Bluesky/Mastodon. He claimed London was only a third "native Brit" which is the factual reality, backed up by Wikipedia. He didn't include "all Whites" just "White Brits." White Brits are the only native Brits to Britain.

>So in DHH's mind white = British.

Wrong. White Brit = native Brit, which is factually correct.

>There's no other way to interpret that

Correct, no other way to interpret the facts.

>and he hasn't corrected it.

"He hasn't removed the wrongthink!"

If you think white Brits are the only native Brits then you are also an ethnonationalist.

But even for a faulty ethnonationalist concept of nationality, the data point makes no sense. I'm white and born in Finland. By your logic, if I move to the UK and become a naturalized citizen, then I would be a native. Which is obviously not true. So the one third figure is both racist and incrdibly stupid.

Native means you're born somewhere. Equating nationality by skin color is ethnonationalism. So I guess congrats, you're a nazi.

>If you think white Brits are the only native Brits then you are also an ethnonationalist.

There's no "thinking" White Brits are the only Brits native to Britain, they are. It's not ethnonationalist, it is an indisputable fact.

>the data point makes no sense

If you bothered to read his blog post, not just Bluesky/Mastodon comments, the data point makes a lot of sense.

>I'm white and born in Finland. By your logic, if I move to the UK and become a naturalized citizen, then I would be a native.

Here is where you're wrong. You would not be native, you would still be a foreigner. Finns are not White Brits. Russians, Austrians, etc. may all be White, but they are not White Brits, and are therefore not native Brits, even if they move and gain citizenship.

>So the one third figure is both racist and incrdibly stupid.

Neither racist nor stupid, just wrongthink.

>Native means you're born somewhere.

White Brits are the only indigenous Brits.

>Equating nationality by skin color is ethnonationalism.

Glad that's not what I nor DHH did.

>So I guess congrats, you're a nazi.

So I guess congrats, you're a genocidal Maoist-Leninist-Marxist.

You seem to be shifting definitions by moving from native Brits to "indigenous" Brits. And conveniently not responding to the point that native means you're born somewhere. Native is the word DHH uses.

The indigenous claim is also funny, because that would refer specifically to Celtic peoples in Britain. And the modern white British population is not predominantly Celtic, and definitely not indigenous. The Anglo-Saxons, e.g., are not indigenous to Britain.

Which leads to the most hilarious point of your post, where you first equate nationality with skin color (in a particularly misguided way) "White Brits are the only indigenous Brits", and then immediately deny that you are equating nationality with skin color.

That's a decent self-contradiction speedrun.

I don't get it. You clearly hold ethnonationalist views and aren't afraid to express them, so I wonder why you're afraid of admitting that you are an ethnonationalist. Be honest about it.

What's your definition of ethnonationalist? It surely can't be as simple as identifying with your tribe, otherwise just about every nation except America would be ethnonationalist.

For me the term has specific far-right connotations; specifically the persecution, or desire to persecute, non-nationals or non-indigenous (or whatever term you'd like to use for the most ancient and rooted culture of a nation).

Your definition is apparently different: what is it?

Btw, the Anglo Saxons did not replace the native English; they were ultimately assimilated into the tribes they conquered. Many (most?) English can trace their genes back to the earliest settlers.

>You seem to be shifting definitions by moving from native Brits to "indigenous" Brits.

Definitions for words you clearly don't understand are not "shifting" anywhere.

>And conveniently not responding to the point that native means you're born somewhere.

I've responded multiple times, you're refusing to acknowledge it because it destroys your narrative. Native does not mean "you're born somewhere." Many cows are born in the US, yet they are not native there.

>The indigenous claim is also funny, because that would refer specifically to Celtic peoples in Britain.

No it wouldn't, Celtics displaced Neolithic Iberians before them. Not that it matters, the only extant indigenous group to London are English people, which descend in part from Celtic Britons.

>And the modern white British population is not predominantly Celtic, and definitely not indigenous.

They're a mix, and definitely indigenous.

>The Anglo-Saxons, e.g., are not indigenous to Britain.

But English people are. English people are "are an ethnic group and nation native to England." [0]

And what group do English people fall under? The "native Brits" DHH mentions. White Brits being "the White population identifying as English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Northern Irish, or British." [1]

Native Brits, more specifically English people, are the only native people indigenous to London.

QED.

>Which leads to the most hilarious point of your post, where you first equate nationality with skin color (in a particularly misguided way)

I never equated nationality with skin color, only ethnic groups. Russians share the same skin color as White Brits, yet are not White Brits, and are not native to London.

>White Brits are the only indigenous Brits", and then immediately deny that you are equating nationality with skin color.

This is what happens when you get political commentary from Bluesky and Mastodon. You had no clue that White British were an ethnicity grouping, nor did you understand the fact that English people are natives.

>That's a decent self-contradiction speedrun.

Only of you don't understand the meaning of words, which is clearly the case here.

>I don't get it. You clearly hold ethnonationalist views and aren't afraid to express them, so I wonder why you're afraid of admitting that you are an ethnonationalist. Be honest about it.

I don't get it. You clearly hold Anglophobic views and aren't afraid to express them, so I wonder why you're afraid of admitting that you are a Marxist Anglophobe. Be honest about it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_British