flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 (@[email protected])
circumstances.run
folks, i'm sorry to inform you that justin m. keyes, the core dev of @[email protected] absolutely *hated* the idea of removing an endorsement by a bona fide fascist from the main webpage of the neovim editor. what happened: i've opened a ticket asking to remove the heinemeier hansson quote; keyes responded to the ticket a few times, first with simply “don't care”, then [with more angry elucidation](https://social.orva.fi/@orva/statuses/01M11PG7BASVGM95BM4A2ZAE0S), then closed as not planned, and finally the issue was removed altogether. unfortunately i have only mail receipts and a screenshot, both missing the rage part of the episode. there's [another open *undeleted* issue though](https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io/issues/501) which presents the attitude of keyes quite well. added: another core maintainer of neovim, tj devries, is scheduled to speak during dhh's omacon. well. and thanks to a friendly dm, i can re-create the text of my ticket here: > hey > > on the main neovim's page you quote an impression/endorsement from David Heinemeier Hansson, a [white supremacionist](https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64) who recently [called for ethnic cleansing of immigrants; specifically the roma people](https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a). > > if you could reconsider quoting an endorsement from a bona fide fascist on your website, that would be very helpful. (please do note that duke's university [decided to drop basecamp in 2023](https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/) specifically because of heinemeier hansson's white supremacist antics.)
  • rwdf
    4·
    18 hours ago

    Justinmk, the lead maintainer wrote:

    You all have embarrassed and shamed yourselves.

    Most of you aren’t Neovim users, but a drive-by mob, swirling from one mindless vomit-party to another, like the pacific garbage patch.

    • ISO@lemmy.zip
      316·
      23 hours ago

      Well said by the mainrainer(sic). Should probably have mentioned the reality behind some of the leaders of the mob, who target people like (infamous nazi!) Richard Stallman.

      Totally organic! And the foot soldiers are totally mentally (and hormonally) stable!

      • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
        31·
        7 hours ago

        You haven’t made it clear what Drew DeVault’s role is in this alleged hate-mob of non-Neovim users. The article you linked (don’t use archive.ph, by the way) doesn’t prove anything more than he likes looking at drawings of children. Even if we suppose he is actually a danger to flesh-and-blood children (which is not implied by that fact), and that there is a hate mob of non-users, and that he is behind it, that’s an ad hominem attack and a non-sequitur.

        DHH is a white supremacist. He talks on his blog about how non-white people need to be purged from society. He should be politically untouchable. I’m a 5-year NeoVim user considering switching to a new editor. Racists do not deserve our platform, and I’m not going to change my mind about that just because one of the people who agrees with me is a pedophile. Two things can be bad at once (and again, that’s if he is).