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I don't follow this kind of thing so forgive my ignorance. Why was "platforming" DHH bad? Honest question.
by kkaske 1y ago
I don't follow this kind of thing so forgive my ignorance. Why was "platforming" DHH bad? Honest question.
- sussmannbaka 1y agoHe’s been posting increasingly inflammatory articles, for the most recent round refer to https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
- DrProtic 1y agoI'm sorry but if DHH posted some inflammatory articles maybe it's better to post those articles for people to judge themselves, than to post what someone else thinks.
- sebastianz 1y agoIt's the third link on that page, in the first sentence.
- bakugo 1y agoHe held the wrong political opinions.
- 4ndrewl 1y agoHe's regurgitating racist tropes. Whether he knows that or not I don't know. He might be racist, it might just be Dunning-Kruger around whether he can speak authoritatively on social issues (in his post there's no attempt at original thought, just copy-paste). But...it makes it a little difficult to build an inclusive open source community with that at your head.
- msie 1y ago‘very fine people on both sides’ - DJT
- AlexandrB 1y agohttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/ This is kind of the problem. People parrot this stuff with no further investigation.
- jspash 1y agoYour link doesn't counter GP's comment in any way. The extra conotext is appreciated though.
- zahlman 1y agoYes, it clearly does. The point of that comment depends on the supposition that Trump was praising objectionable groups, so as to liken DHH's behaviour to that. But it is well established that Trump did not, in fact, praise objectionable groups. And reading the full text of Trump's interview reveals nothing objectionable about what he was saying.
- jjgreen 1y agoJudge for yourself: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 (a web search on "Tommy Robinson" would help with context).
- rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 1y agoAre you sure you posted the right article? There's nothing about Ruby or RubyGems in it.
- madeofpalk 1y agoThe question was "Why was "platforming" DHH bad?". Some people disagree with the views represented in that linked blog post, and do not wish to sponsor events that showcase him. Personally, I think DHH is a troll and would never be interested in sponsoring, or attending, an event that involved him.
- vidarh 1y agoThere is, however, a whole lot that says a lot about the character of DHH in it, such as by repeating rhetoric of the UK's racist far-right.
- bakugo 1y agoPushing everyone who doesn't have a 100% positive opinion on mass immigration under the label of "racist far-right" actively contributes to the strengthening of said "racist far-right". I hope you're aware of that.
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- philipwhiuk 1y agoStephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon is openly racist and definitely far-right.
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- hamandcheese 1y agoI too am wondering this.
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- basisword 1y agoPeople are free to lean left or right. Unfortunately bigotry and racism has been rebranded as simply being right leaning politically. Reading some of his recent articles he's neither left or right - just a bit of a racist bigot.
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- zahlman 1y agoNo. Agreeing that words like DHH used are code for some kind of racist bigotry, has become a "left-coded" argument; while taking arguments e.g. about high rates of immigration from places with very different norms and culture at face value has become a "right-coded" argument. (Quotation marks because the slang still seems awkward to me.) This is glossing over the fact that everyone ITT has been linking examples of DHH's speech that seem to come from after people got upset with him. You say "has been rebranded" as if this happened naturally. What I see happening is that it's left-wing political strategy to push that rebranding, and right-wing political strategy to ignore it and/or claim it's absurd.
- alphager 1y agoHe posted a personal blog post a few days ago decrying that London is not white enough. He has a history of very right-leaning positions.
- thevillagechief 1y agoThese kind of statements frustrate me. They are kind of manufactured consent statements. I likely don't agree with DHH positions as shared here, but when did we decide platforming very left-leaning positions is good, and platforming very right-leaning ones is bad? I wouldn't even mind if the position was that platforming either is good/bad. The framing here begs the question.
- pebble 1y agoThe left-leaning ones usually don't call for the eradication of certain peoples.
- tremon 1y agoTo be fair, neither do the right-leaning ones; the ones that do have fallen completely on their side. It's just that societal discourse has been purposefully skewed so that the mean lean is 60 degrees to the right, making it very easy for weak individuals to fall over.
- arresin 1y agoNeither side can claim not to be violent. Obviously.
- sleight42 1y agoIf we're talking about the US, that's a straw man. There was a study that made objectively clear that the right is several times more actively violent than the left. "Both sides" is a euphemistic fig leaf of an argument at best.
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