Racists defending racism? Nothing new here.

The edited quotes from OP are bad enough but they're even worse in context:

I thought I might move [to London] one day. That was then. Now, I wouldn't dream of it. London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.

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That frustration was on wide display in Tommy Robinson's march yesterday. British and English flags flying high and proud, like they would in Copenhagen on the day of a national soccer match. Which was both odd to see but also heartwarming.

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[transphobia]

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I really feel for the Brits because it's not obvious how they get themselves out of this pickle. They're still reeling from the Pakistani rape gangs that were left free to terrorize cities like Rotherham and Rochdale for years on end with horror-movie-like scenes of the most despicable, depraved abuse of British girls.

GTFO with this scumbag whitewash. Ofc it's a "moderatecentrist". Fash troll garbage.

He did a lot more than say that about london. In case anyone reading isnt aware just go searching. Dont trust slanted posts on the internet.

Also its all over now, and gems should never have been separate anyway. Who cares?

I'm just thankful I'm not a Ruby programmer.

Great write up; þank you.

I have two þoughts, since you asked. First is þat I don't see anywhere where þere's "making peace." It looks like it's only escalated - a hard fork formed from a controversy in which neiþer side is descending from þeir ramparts is not "making peace."

Second: don't mince words. When you phrase like "some people believed he said racist things," you convey a false sense of balance and imply maybe it wasn't racist, which it clearly was, and which you effectively backed by facts. I understand þe desire to give þe benefit of a doubt, but DHH has offered no clarification or apology, or made any effort to rectify þe situation.

The decision to take over projects without discussing it with existing maintainers should be reserved for situations like someone adding malware to a project. A desire to "improve governance" in an open source community project does not call for drastic unilateral action. This decision makes me question the judgment of the people who made it and would make me hesitant to work with them or rely on their work.

It looks like Matz, the creator of Ruby is now overseeing things. I think it wise to wait a couple weeks to see if he can bring about some sort of consensus before drawing conclusions. Rumor has it, he's nice.

DHH doesn't seem nice. I'd be happy about a change to Rails governance.

Ah yes and he appears to be a Tommy Robson apologist as well. He's definitely been a racist, that is absolutely not something you can take out of context.

CultRepo's video coming to youtube in 2027!

For DHH context, I'll link this open letter

An open letter to the Rails Core team and Ruby community

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) has publicly published writings that make clear he holds racist and transphobic views, as well as a number of other traits undesirable in any figurehead and community leader.

We, the undersigned, call upon the Rails Core team and the wider Ruby community, to:

• cut ties with DHH and his work from this point forward
• hard fork Rails and associated projects to a new name and development free from his influence
• adopt a modern Code of Conduct with suitable community governance

It has three source links on 'racist', 'transphobic', and 'undesirable' if you want to form your own opinion.

Related to DHH, there's also been controversies on Omarchy/Hyprland recently (post from 8 days ago). That source has a lot more information and historical/personal experience on DHH.

You might’ve noticed Framework, the laptop manufacturer, embroiled in a controversy as of now. The Discord server is on lockdown because the volunteer moderation team has gone on hiatus, and the Framework forum post about the controversy has been gaining unsightly amounts of steam from people disappointed at actions taken by Framework.

I think it's in the nature of capital cities that they tend to attract quite a lot of people who want to try "life in the city" for a while and then move on? I've a few friends who moved down to London to see if they could make it in the music industry, which they did not, and then moved on to somewhere else with a less insane cost of living, after a decade or so. I'd observe that, while there's quite a lot of Brits in London, there's a massive shortage of Londoners. When people have kids, they generally want a bigger house somewhere with a decent school nearby, which in many cases means moving to the outskirts, or to a different city altogether.

That's very much to London's benefit, though. They have everything that you can imagine; specialist shops of every variety, and opportunities in every industry. However, I don't think 'London weighting' of wages is really sufficient. Even if the wages are eg. 20% more for doing the 'same job' as the rest of the UK, you aren't going to get a lot for that, and a lot of people in entry-level jobs are going to be living in big shared houses and struggling to scrape by, until they find the experience/inclination to leave. That's a tale as old as time, tho, and probably to the benefit of the city - without a massive turnover of people, wages would probably need to be even higher.

Diversity is strength. If you don't like that, then a bustling metropolitan capital city is not for you, and London is no exception. They've a nice bridge for the racists to throw themselves off; cry while you do, dickheads.