The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.

The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views

1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe.

The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.

One viral blog post declared that 1Password “Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe” because of the donation. Others on social media asked for suggestions for alternative password managers so they would not support the funding of a project from Heinemeier Hansson, better known as DHH.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    25 minutes ago

    In an internal Slack message obtained by The Verge, 1Password’s Karimov downplayed the overtly racist comments from DHH, telling staff the following:

    As I said, people have different personal opinions. You believe in your heart that DHH is evil, that you have the moral high ground, and that nothing will change your mind.

    However, not everyone believes that. It is not fair to claim a monopoly and ostracize team members who might disagree with you.

    There are people who are afraid to speak up simply because they will be personally attacked.

    What bigots don’t understand, is that when they say to literally kill immigrants, and someone calls them a violent bigot…

    The bigots aren’t being “attacked” someone is just acknowledging reality.

    If bigots were being “personally attacked” for advocating genocide, it would include physical violence, not someone calling them a violent bigot.

    And when they conflate the two, someone on the other side is going to physically respond. Because at a certain point the consequence for acknowledging reality and fighting back is the same.

    Edit:

    And this is another example of why we don’t advertise these shitty rightwing products.

    The guy who gave 300k didn’t hear about this distro cuz it worked, he saw articles about how they’re nazis, and he supports Nazis.

    Complaining about them constantly just gives them free advertisement

    • grue@lemmy.world
      2·
      12 minutes ago

      However, not everyone believes that. It is not fair to claim a monopoly and ostracize team members who might disagree with you.

      Karimov is definitely telling on himself there. If you think it’s “not fair” to ostracize racists, you’re a motherfucking racist!

      1Password is now outed as a NAZI organization. Period.