To be fair, it’s not hard to say “white supremacy is bad and I’m not cool with it”
replyIt took me only 10 seconds to write.
It's also hard to stay cool and agree with the mob dogpiling you over (tbh) a triviality. Anyone who's had to have difficult conversations in the real world knows that. I'm not going to expect people to respond in the best way to such things (easy to project this expectation when you're an anonymous name in the crowd, though).
replyI still don’t understand how quoting something that someone said about Neovim means that you support Nazism, just because said person happened to be a Nazi.
reply> only 10 seconds to write
replyI'm White (99.44% pure Celtic-British Isles), and I type 100wpm. Isn't it ironic.
> I'm White (99.44% pure Celtic-British Isles)
replyCould’ve just posted a random percentage with no context whatsoever and people would know you are white, moneyed and with too much time on your hands.
In this case, all evidence points to the lead maintainer sympathizing with DHH's views. If his immediate hostility towards someone politely suggesting the removal of DHH's endorsement didn't make his stance clear enough, here's an archive of his previously public YouTube playlist titled "history," full of talks from far right ideologues like Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin.
replyThe relatively small core team has a member giving talks about Neovim at DHH's conference and another one prominently displaying Palantir as their employer in their GitHub profile.
It's clear where their sympathies lie, and that GitHub issue wasn't a one-off coming from a stressful online interaction.