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Complaining that they give money to people you don't like is not a good look when you want them to give money to people you do like.
by account42 1mo ago
Complaining that they give money to people you don't like is not a good look when you want them to give money to people you do like.
- prinny_ 1mo agoI think it’s a very good look when the people you complain about are racists.
- IslandRebel 1mo ago[flagged]
- boredpudding 1mo agoThere's a difference between when people have a platform. Made a mistake 10 years ago? Fine. But that's very different than using your huge platform today to spread your hate. Pretending those two are the same is dangerous. One of them does actual harm today.
- IslandRebel 1mo ago[flagged]
- drewbeck 1mo ago> Someone will dig through some old forums/news group/twitter posts that someone made and use that as a stick to beat them with. This is not about digging up some old careless post. It’s about his current views which he posts proudly online. I’ll note your post pulls a classic trick: - these views are not that important to who he is - anyway even if he did hold those views it’s not that big of a deal - but also I agree with those views (even tho I am but a humble, reasonable centrist)
- IslandRebel 1mo ago[flagged]
- dofm 1mo ago> Secondly, constantly berating him for having the wrong opinions and not explaining why those opinions are wrong are more likely to entrench his positions and anyone that is sympathetic to those opinions. People have tried that. DHH is at best a pseudo-intellectual troll.
- IslandRebel 1mo ago[flagged]
- dofm 1mo agoI do indeed accuse him of being a pseudo-intellectual troll, and that is the kindest interpretation of things he has actually written, including “As I Remember London”, which is creepy, deliberately misleading, has clear white-nationalist subtext and openly supports a crooked bigoted thug.
- IslandRebel 1mo ago[flagged]
- dofm 1mo agoNope, sorry. There are things in that article that are really a long way beyond having been deceived. They cannot and must not be minimised in that way. And nobody who criticises them should feel any blame if he doubles down; he is a wealthy privileged white man who is solely responsible for the things he says.
- IslandRebel 1mo ago
- brazukadev 1mo agoWhy are you comparing someone that said a mild anti-abort thing to DHH tho? can you describe with your words what is DHH main talking points? mild racism? mild eugenics?
- IslandRebel 1mo ago[flagged]
- brazukadev 1mo agoYou don't see anything wrong with his posts because you hold similar beliefs, you are just putting yourself in the center, which is typical.
- IslandRebel 1mo ago[flagged]
- polymer8563 1mo agototally the same thing guys! comparison is my passion!
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- yaakushi 1mo agoNo idea who Jeff Geerling is, but about Rossman: He has his opinion about trans people. Some people have the opinion that he is a bigot as a consequence of that. I don't see the issue with that? Also, it's not like he'll lose his platform or his company over that, so I doubly don't see the issue here?
- 740273730191 1mo ago[flagged]
- archerx 1mo ago[flagged]
- dofm 1mo agoDHH is pretty evidently racist in a lazily-disguised form, and he sounds a lot like a wealthy 1930s pro-Nazi pseudointellectual when he spouts off. He's also spoken in favour of an agitator who appears intent on sparking a race-and-religion-driven civil inflagration in the UK. Pretty solidly applicable terms, I am sorry to say. Maybe no worse than JD Vance, Pete Hegseth or Trump, but then none of those people are figuratively one of our own.
- ramon156 1mo agothey arent being called racist, they are racist. not a small difference there.
- archerx 1mo ago[flagged]
- simianparrot 1mo agoThe racist accusation has been overused so much it's not just having diminishing returns, it's having no effect. If you can't argue someone's point but just throw labels at them, you are going to lose because the labels lose value the more broadly you apply them. And that will allow the real racists to walk right through your gates because you can no longer identify them when everyone you don't like is a racist.
- malmz 1mo agoThis is the real racist, walking through the gate.
- jakelazaroff 1mo agoThe label pretty obviously fits in this case though? No one is calling DHH racist as some sort of slur; they're just describing his system of beliefs.
- blactuary 1mo ago"People you don't like" is a great euphemism for racists
- boredpudding 1mo agoBecause being friendly works doesn't work. Open source maintainers have been screaming about funding for years. One dude comes along, adds some scripts on top of all the work of those maintainers, and gets millions in funding? You can't expect people to be nice then. It's completely messed up.
- oefrha 1mo agoIn this case CSS-Tricks got paid $4m first, so probably the wrong entity to be complaining about funding. But maybe the lead editor in question who’s not the creator didn’t see much of that?
- boredpudding 1mo agoCSS-Tricks didn't get paid $4m. They got acquired. The previous owner of CSS-Tricks got $4m.
- oefrha 1mo agoGot acquired => got paid. CSS-Tricks the entity (up to the point of acquisition) got paid the money. If and how the money was divided between the people involved doesn’t seem be public info.
- geoffgraham 1mo agoIt wasn't divided.
- oefrha 1mo ago[flagged]
- danieljacksonno 1mo ago"One dude" that has been one of the lead and most well known contributors to open source for decades now.
- mb_thd 1mo ago"people you do like" in this case refers to a website that DigitalOcean owns. "people you don't like" is a singular (racist) guy who slapped a bunch of scripts on top of Arch and somehow receives hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.
- 740273730191 1mo ago[flagged]
- kreetx 1mo ago[flagged]
- blactuary 1mo ago-- cultural non-fit, rather than racist Incredible
- kreetx 1mo agoImagine there is a latin dance club, most want to dance rumba. But a pair who happens to be of other race wants to dance tango. Would sending them to another dance club be racist? If some behavior associates with race, it doesn't mean that it is caused by race. There are plenty of African or Muslim origin people who assimilate just fine. It's just that a larger proportion than natives, some "other" groups commit more crime or live off of welfare. Race associates with less merit, yes, but doesn't cause it. Cause is merit, not race, hence not racism.
- bluedel 1mo agoImagine you're making a pizza, but you're out of pepperoni. Your mother-in-law is allergic to bacon. Now imagine I'm leaving your house and riding my bike into the sunset.
- kreetx 1mo agoLike I said, if an attribute is statistically associated with another, then one doesn't cause the other. Proportionally larger part of the immigrants produce less value to society and come to consume away what the natives produced, then basis for reducing immigration or "remigration" is merit, not race. If you are unable to point errors in this line of thought, then making fun of it will unfortunately make your stance look even weaker.
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- benatkin 1mo agoIn this case you can judge for yourself if it's an overreaction. https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a
- meyer3423 1mo ago[dead]
- dallen33 1mo agoHoly shit, that blog post was insane. He's clearly a racist twat.
- taikahessu 1mo agoWow. You can make your own conclusions, but my money is not exactly going to flow into DigitalOcean's pocket in the near future.
- panny 1mo agoHe seems concerned about vagrancy and "shitting in the bushes" rather than the race (Is gypsy even a race?) of people doing it. Going way back up to what was said above however, if you want funds for css-tricks, complaining about omarchy getting funded is just dumb. Funding tends to go to things that are growing. Omarchy is growing fast. It's going to get funded. If you're not growing, you starve. That's just how capitalism appears to operate. Based on comments here, it sounds like css-tricks founder got paid and didn't care anymore so the product withered, hence no further funding to be expected.