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jmcgough 4 days ago

Not sure he's "on the outs", he on Shopify's board.

Sidekiq's solo dev (Mike Perham) has for many years made a generous donation to Ruby Central. He informed them that he didn't want his money to be spent platforming dhh at their conference, they ignored his request, he stopped his annual donations.

If you want to read about dhh's colorful blog posts and tweets: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug...

mtndew4brkfst 4 days ago | parent [-]

Colorful is an odd way to spell "vocally bigoted".

jmcgough 3 days ago | parent [-]

I get downvoted here when I call him a racist.

angoragoats 3 days ago | parent [-]

Me too, and because of that I feel it's even more important to use language like racist, white nationalist, and fascist when describing him and his ilk, because that's what they are. Softening the language only leads to those beliefs becoming more normalized than they already are.