Any press is good press. Filter out any mention of fashtech so that you can’t be tempted to respond to it.
The picture is an example in #mbin. Lemmy might have it too
Friendly reminder that lamenting your native country losing its identity and making you a minority is not inherently xenophobic, racist or fascist. Would you want that to happen to you?
Not trying to defend DHH per se but I think people are twisting words around and blowing things WAY out of proportion to fit some narrative. I’ve read the posts in question and he has not actually called for any violence nor wished anyone to get hurt. He has not claimed anyone doesn’t have a right to exist. Not everyone is the best at articulating their thoughts properly, and we shouldn’t default to assume the worst possible intent. Without actually talking to the guy and getting real clarification, I’d say it’s a bit too dangerous to make such wild sweeping claims like I keep seeing.
Or this one:
When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them.
Let’s rephrase this a different way:
“When illegal immigrants overwhelm a city, you deport them”
How do you know that’s not all he meant? People are taking great liberties interpreting subjective terminology here.
If you’re going to have a kneejerk reaction and act like only your opinion matters and nothing could possibly change it, well that’s not reasoned and rational debate, is it? Just downvote and move on I guess if you disagree with me.
Also, the irony of people on lobsters hating on the guy while their own site runs on Rails, seems completely lost on them.
Friendly reminder that lamenting your native country losing its identity and making you a minority
What is this even in reference to?
is not inherently xenophobic, racist or fascist.
It is inherently, by definition, xenophobic and potentially racist (if race is involved). Fascism just often plays on those vices.
To quote Merriam-Webster, xenophobia is:
fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
So yes, it’s xenophobic.
Would you want that to happen to you?
I don’t care if it does. I’ve been both a minority and majority in various times of my life. It only mattered when interacting with people who dislike minorities (or majorities).
Let’s rephrase this a different way:
“When illegal immigrants overwhelm a city, you deport them”
Is he using “gypsy” to refer to illegal immigrants? Said dictionary provides no definition that matches it, though I know it’s often used as a derogatory term to refer to Eastern Europeans (especially Romanians), regardless of legality (and for that matter most of Europe doesn’t check visas for international travel within those countries anyway).
people are using the word facist wrong. they are watering it down. but the guy is racist. he wasnt lamenting about illegal immigrants he was complaining that brits were no longer white. he did this by referencing a graph that showed the oercentage of british citizens (not illegal immigrants). this graph showed a percentage of white and non white and he referenced that exact percentage.
But I’m still happy to take part in converstaions that criticize this fascist’s arch-based vanity distro!
What is omarchy? I never read that word before.
Some mildly famous developer compared shooting wolves to “the gypsy problem” and made his own Linux distro.
