day Twelve tech executives and companies pledged $12 million to fund Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson's Omacom Foundation despite his white-nationalist rhetoric, reflecting a broader trend of far-right ideology being normalized and financially backed within the open-source community.
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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH · brennan.day Twelve tech executives and companies pledged $12 million to fund Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson's Omacom Foundation despite his white-nationalist rhetoric, reflecting a broader trend of far-right ideology being normalized and financially backed within the open-source community. https:// brennan.day/normalized
This is a long and incredibly fucking depressing list of tech people who have either gone full fascist or are just perfectly comfortable hanging out with and supporting those who have. Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH https:// brennan.day/normalized-fascism -in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/
Receipts https:// brennan.day/normalized-fascism -in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/