Yes, I dismissed the reactions as overreaction and the usual drama, until I read what DHH himself has written this summer. He would no longer fit the European far right comfortably to be honest, his current views align better with the 1930's. And that way SV happily invests tens of millions to your collection of dotfiles.
Can you post the 1930 view link? So far people seem to be posting links to one view that basically any average politically conservative person would hold (limit immigration), although admittedly more flowery prose
You and others have been provided with links to DHH's writing plenty of times when you've asked for evidence in the many threads on this subject that you've participated in over the past few months.
If you don't want to give the impression that you're sealioning in an attempt to derail people's conversations, it might be a good idea to first read some of those links before asking for them again.
Sorry what? This is the first time I'm hearing about DHH in non-Ruby context. No idea about guy's life or views. I thought he's american.
I already read the two circulating links before posting. It's a common politically conservative person's view ("less immigrants please").
It's clear him and me won't agree on some things (I wouldn't go to Robinson's marches) just like I don't agree on things with some European friends who are too conservative or too leftist, but I'm really interested to hear his 1930s views... unless you want to trivialize what was happening back then?
By God, is that how you read it? The comparison to animals, that he could not live with people of different ethnicity? And by "ethnicity", this literally means "non-white" people, as he, as a Danish person, wanted to move to London and complains that there are too many foreigners.
This is the AfD-level right-wing, not your casual conservative. Regardless, it's pretty expected that people would not want to support someone who writes this awful kind of similes.
The comparison to animals cuts both ways, right? He's comparing locals to sheep
> And by "ethnicity", this literally means "non-white" people
I read the links before I posted. I remember reading "non-Danes" and talking about Brits and non Brits. to me being a British person is about culture not skin color. If he is judging people by skin color then I'll disagree with him on that.
Yes, you're right! Romani people to wolves. And locals as sheep. And we should put down the wolves.
>I read the links before I posted. One link specifically says "non-Danes" the other one is talking about Brits and non Brits.
Yes, you're right! Brits and non-brits. Let's scour:
>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.
There's a hint of what's going on here. Danish person wants to move to London. Gets to London. "gee, I could never migrate here, there are way too few native Brits". It's almost like he considers himself "a native Brit". Buddy just doesn't like colored people.
1) The article is not even about Romani people, it's about vagrants.
2) He seems to be ok with some level of immigration: "Copenhagen, by comparison, was about eighty-five percent native Danes in 2000, and is still three-quarters today. Enough of a foreign presence to feel cosmopolitan, but still distinctly Danish in all of its ways. [...] So I get the frustration that many Brits have with the way mass immigration has changed the culture and makeup of not just London, but their whole country."
Nothing extreme about this. I have British friends of Indian descent who have expressed similar sentiments to me.
Do you boycott Japanese and Chinese companies as well? Because I guarantee their views on immigration are far more extreme. China, for all practical purposes, has essentially no immigration.
And finally, none of this has anything remotely to do with his operating system.
The comment I responded to had an issue with him comparing Roma people to animals. I just said he compared local people to animals too. Now if you move goalposts and say comparing to wolves is worse than comparing to sheep, we can argue about that but it's a different argument.
> Yes, you're right! Brits and non-brits
Exactly. But the comment I responded to claimed he hated people based on skin color. Brits can be black, you know? Some of my favorite brits are black or asian.
Other articles provided by a sibling comment show he believes people cannot integrate based on the country of their parents' origin, which is a wrong view in my opinion, but that quoted part you're replying about isn't about that.
This is exactly what you'd find in der sturmer in the 30's, Nazis regularly used predator/prey analogies when describing jews as invading their country.
OK. I thought they compared them to parasites... Kind of the opposite of predator. incompatible metaphors if you ask me, but I guess population didn't care.
They did both actually. Could call it broad spectrum rhetoric, as some rhetoric works on some people and not others, and people riled up on emotions don't stop and consider if they're being internally consistent in their rhetoric.
Even popular today in right winger rhetoric about globalism or the deep state. They're both controlling and running the world but are also completely incompetent and inept at stopping their "enemies" from gaining power.
> The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.
The incompatibility is a feature of the propaganda.
The list gets worse and worse as you go... he starts out with the usual right wing demagogue opinions and then just gets more and more explicitly racist as he goes. In the end talking about shooting wolves as an analogy for deporting gypsies... ??? I can't hand wave this stuff away.
1. https://world.hey.com/dhh/failed-integration-and-the-fall-of...
(Jan 2025) Argues that people from certain cultures can never integrate into European societies no matter what anyone does, which amounts to saying that where you come from permanently determines whether you can belong.
2. https://world.hey.com/dhh/closing-the-borders-alone-won-t-fi...
(Mar 2025) Calls Danish-born children and grandchildren of Middle Eastern, North African, Pakistani and Turkish immigrants "culturally-incompatible" and blames them for school violence and women feeling unsafe. These are Danish citizens being written off because of their ancestry.
3. https://world.hey.com/dhh/gender-and-sexuality-alliances-in-...
(Jun 2025) Describes a trans-inclusion week at his kids' school as indoctrination and talks about trans identity spreading among children like a contagion. This is the post people point to for transphobia.
4. https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64
(Sep 2025) The post that started the backlash. Says London is no longer full of "native Brits," but the numbers he uses are census figures for white British people, so non-white Londoners born in the UK don't count as British by his definition. Calls this a nightmare and a "demographic replacement," which is Great Replacement conspiracy language, and describes a Tommy Robinson march as heartwarming.
5. https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-ve-all-had-enough-of-this-nonse...
(Sep 2025) His response to being called racist: the critics are woke loonies, and calling someone a Nazi is really a signal that violence against him has been authorized. Doesn't engage with what he actually wrote.
6. https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-rape-of-britain-610412f8
(Jun 2026) Presents the grooming-gang scandal as Pakistani Muslims raping White British girls, based on a report published by Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain party rather than any official inquiry. The scandal is real; the ethnic-versus-ethnic framing and the partisan source are the problem.
7. https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so...
(Jul 2026) Says stopping immigration isn't enough and that "millions who are already in Europe must go." He calls this remigration, a mass-deportation idea that came out of the European far right as the solution to the Great Replacement.
8. https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a
(Jul 2026) Compares Roma migrants in Copenhagen, whom he calls gypsies, to wolves killing sheep, and ends with: you shoot the wolves, you deport the gypsies. An ethnic group likened to predators, using a word many Roma consider a slur.
9. https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-m-sorry-dave-380ec27d
(Jul 2026) Defends the wolves post as banal mainstream opinion and approvingly cites The Camp of the Saints, a novel that white nationalists treat as a foundational text. Doubling down rather than walking anything back.
> Describes a trans-inclusion week at his kids' school as indoctrination and talks about trans identity spreading among children like a contagion. This is the post people point to for transphobia.
This is an actual researched phenomenon with evidence behind it, known as rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD). It's controversial, though only because it's at odds with mainstream trans ideological beliefs. But it does explain why paediatric gender clinics have had such a huge influx of new patients in recent years and why they have significantly skewed female.
About the two links you originally posted: I read them just before commenting here. It's a common (especially recently) view about immigrants in many countries. In Europe and USA it's a common politically conservative view, in PRC, Korea, Japan, Russia it's more mainstream.
Not something I fully support. I disagree about disliking let alone deporting immigrants just because they're different or because of the skin color. However, I can see an issue when immigration significantly worsens tragedy of the commons. My view as I mentioned in some other thread before is that it's not unreasonable to expect an immigrant to culturally integrate (note that this doesn't mean abandoning religion or traditions) and speak local language. I guess DHH may be more conservative than me, but comparing it to German Nazi seems a stretch. Also, nearly half of Europeans I come across in my experience have similar views.
Based on your summaries, I stand by my opinion. The average conservative European is against trans weeks (no opinion), may agree that some cultures can never integrate (I disagree), may claim that some people are culturally incompatible because their parents are from some countries (this may be the worst, and I disagree), may claim that London is no longer full of Brits (contrary to your summary of it census puts a number on Brits of any skin color-59%-but I disagree that it is in itself an issue), would classify the grooming gang scandal as a Muslim-related issue (no opinion, as far as I recall Mohammed's recorded sayings discount harm to non-believers but no idea if that played any significant role), dislikes gypsies' effect on public places (I heard similar stuff from other Europeans, personally I don't have anything against gypsies and disagree with stressing ethnicity, but haven't lived where their presence is noticeable and IMO it's not unreasonable to expect integration from immigrants), etc. These don't seem like extreme views even if I don't support them.
It's clear I don't agree with him but if there was a smoking gun that made his opinions too extreme considering mainstream I'm sure they would surface in your summaries.
Not sure it's 1930 German Nazi level bad, though him being a bit famous makes it worse. I can see why some people may feel like they want to switch providers. luckily I don't use 1password.
