It’s a bad look for the ruby ecosystem. Continuing to rehash, throw mud, and speculate at this point likely harms the greater community more than any “side” would “win”.
> "Shopify specifically put immense financial pressure on Ruby Central to take full control of the RubyGems GitHub organisation and Ruby gems"
Well that explains everything.
I think you lose a lot when you abstract away someone's words as "positions that alienate". Pineapple on pizza is a position that alienates, as is forced sterilisation of criminals. So here's some specific words:
> 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 [ie white, as specified by the Wikipedia article the words "native Brits" link to]
> There's absolutely nothing racist or xenophobic in saying that Denmark is primarily a country for the Danes, Britain primarily a united kingdom for the Brits, and Japan primarily a set of islands for the Japanese.
He doesn't think brown people belong in the UK. His "positions" are racism. He's racist. That's the problem.
Where have all the enlightenment-values rationalist monks gone now that we so desperately need people to combine P and P -> Q?
Here's the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London
Here's what the article says:
> In 2011, it was reported for the first time that White British people had become a minority within the city
How could you possibly come to the conclusion that it's not about race? Do you think he linked to the wrong article by accident?
Then he goes on to point out more than sixty percent of the city were "native Brits" in 2000, but that number corresponds to the White British categorization.
Ergo he's conflating White British with native British.
He also said "A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now." Maybe he is extremely observant, but I don't think that follows unless he is talking about skin color.
And so much discussion at every step of the way
PaulHoule•1h ago
joshmn•1h ago
jmcgough•1h ago
PaulHoule•1h ago
The politics have been smouldering on forever. That governance event w/ Rubygems seems like a once in every twenty years kind of event. Unfortunately racist blog posts are like one every five seconds, you're kinda platforming somebody by trying to deplatform them for that. Like it or not 34% of people in the UK said they would vote for Reform
https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/reform-uk-leads-12-pts-over-labo...
and you can't change that by finger wagging at those people, drop what you are doing and watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b46LtbbZ5JE
... but it's too hard to have a war with the UK so you gotta fight some washed up rando.
ryandv•22m ago
Point the second: People are feeling emboldened to bypass rule of law and take matters into their own hands, up to and including taking other peoples' lives. Not only is this time fraught with political tension, it is also approaching the most crucial time of the year for ecommerce and online retailers - the holiday shopping season.
Put two and two together and it's not hard to see why people are scrambling to secure the software supply chain.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104910
[1] https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extension...
derkster•29m ago
anyone so unhinged that they can't comprehend the value in not publicly attacking subsets of the population you might need to cooperate with, eventually becomes a liability for everyone.