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STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers
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this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2026
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This isn't just a case of some abrasive people involved. The guy who runs the project, DHH, is an open and proud racist. He posts his very straightforward racist beliefs on his blog. He made ruby on rails, and after being rejected from the ruby community he's now trying to insert himself into the Linux/open source community. On top of that, the "distro" is Arch + some dot files. Despite that, he's managed to raise millions of dollars in outside funding, which is insane for open source project. Either his industry connections are willing to look past the racism and hand him a bunch of money anyway, or they actively agree with him and want to build a space for racists in the open source community.
Add in the AI stuff and people have plenty of reason to boycott this project.
Is he actually racist? I've read he wrote about remigration, but that's about uncontrolled immigration, nothing to do with hatred for races
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/
He wrote on his blog "The last loonies on tech's woke island"... (https://world.hey.com/dhh/calling-someone-a-nazi-is-a-permission-slip-for-violence-4bfbbb82)
Ironically, he's using it in the context of saying slandering someone as an actual Nazi is unfair to people with more conservative views. But what he's missing is it takes place in a context where trans people are often killed, subject to discrimination, and often commit suicide due to harassment and discrimination. So the "loonies" and "woke" being juxtaposed so closely together let me understand that he's on the side of being unkind to trans people, who already have hard lives.
Usually when people write "woke" and "crazy" or "lunatic," what it really refers to is "It's crazy that some people born one gender want to be another gender and have different pronouns." Usually it's not just welcoming all races at work is "crazy" and "woke." I've never seen someone write "crazy woke radical left" or something like that without also hating trans people. It's just faster to dog whistle than explicating hate.
I have a better understanding now. Okay, so Omarchy looks interesting, but going to pass on trying it out.