| ▲ | srid 2 hours ago |
| Sounds like you have a poitical clash with DHH. You are of course free to choose how you spend your money. Other people are free to ignore politics or look at counteracting viewpoints: https://felipec.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/the-ruby-community-... |
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| ▲ | pkd an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| That article spends a lot of words in trying to paint DHH's "native Brits" in a positive light but never mentions the following sentence from the article: > A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now. How is DHH able to determine nativity as defined by "being born and brought up" simply walking the streets of London if it has nothing to do with what you look like? Plus he even links to a Wikipedia page about white vs non-white British population in London and uses the non-white number. If he wanted to, he could've referred to the foreign-born vs local-born numbers too but he did not. I don't think DHH is racist, but he's so infected by the anti-woke mind virus that he's happy to parrot racist talking points to "own the libs". Whether that's any better, I'm not sure. It seems like the author has infinite rope to extend to DHH. That's not being nice, that's being oblivious. |
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| ▲ | zozbot234 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | That isn't even the worst part. The real, actual problem is that this kind of hateful racist rhetoric is now being used throughout Europe and the Western world more generally (including, it seems, by Tommy Robinson himself) to support and promote the absolutely batshit insane idea of "remigration". Basically, this means that even if you've long been an actual British citizen, or a citizen of the Western country that supposedly enacts this policy, you can suddenly be considered "not native enough" as a matter of public policy and be subjected to severely punishing policies that reduce you to a sort of de-facto second-class status; with the underlying notion being that you should be somehow compelled to "go back" to "your" real country, whatever that is. Of course it should go without saying that this is a regression to actual fascist-era thinking, it's outright unconstitutional in mostly any of the countries that would be considering this (but of course that doesn't stop populist politicians from bringing it up, because why would it?), and needless to say, any hint of this being considered would have quite detrimental effects on any kind of underlying social cohesion. It's not just about high-minded principles, there's very practical consequences when this kind of outrageous inflammatory rhetoric is allowed to gain ground without very on-point challenges being raised. | |
| ▲ | smileson2 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm in a weird boat in all this drama where I don't care what DHH thinks about the UK or the UK | | |
| ▲ | pkd 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Of course, but I know people who live in the UK who are not white. Some have lived there all their lives, even. Perhaps this drivel doesn't upset them but I can imagine how it might. Unfortunately DHH is not going to be focused on the UK only. He'll lend his voice to the next rightwing ragebait without consideration of people who he works with on the daily. He had some very strong but entirely misinformed opinions about my hometown a few years ago and it was extremely annoying to read that from an ostensibly intelligent person while being in the middle of everything. If he was some random guy, it wouldn't be such an issue but given he's the leader of a big open source project, everything he says gets a lot of publicity and frankly causes a lot of distraction for people just trying to do work on or with Rails. |
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| ▲ | metabagel an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It seems unlikely to me that DHH wasn’t referring to white people when he said “native Brit”. Certainly, if that’s not what he meant, he could clear that up pretty easily. Has he? |
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| ▲ | joe5150 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I don't think this drivel helps explains anything that's not stated in very plain English in DHH's blog. |