There are literally people in this thread saying they wouldnt use ruby if dhh became lead because of his politics. Ruby in the west it seems to come up a lot. Mozilla/JS it came up with brendan eich being fired for his politics. Mostly its against anyone that steps out of line with far left san fransisco politics.

i don't think it's unreasonable to not want someone who has a habit of ranting about "Pakistani rape gangs" on twitter to represent/head a community project. Especially one that has contributions from people all over the world. Even ethics aside it's just bad business