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{{Quote box|quote=Unfortunately it isn’t just migrants and non-white people that have come under fire in DHH’s recent writing and social media posts. There have been multiple examples of anti-trans rhetoric. There was the post where he described an ad featuring a plus-sized Black women as “grotesque” and celebrated the ads being replaced with ones featuring “blond babies” (what is it about the baby’s blondness that is relevant I wonder?). There have been the posts veering into puritanical Pronatalism, another favourite subject of the nationalist right. Whether it’s his direct intention or not, there has been a consistent theme of othering and stigmatising in his recent writing. The message is clear: if you are trans, a migrant, black, overweight, childless, have ADHD, then in DHH’s view you are somehow inferior. Instead of raising up and supporting the marginalised and vulnerable, DHH choses to exclude and punch down. This is not something the Ruby community can continue to simply ignore.|author=Tekin Süleyman|source=The Ruby community has a DHH problem}}
== Basecamp's "Best Names Ever" ==
Basecamp is a productivity tool developed by 37signals. In 2021, Basecamp disbanded their [[Diversity, equity, and inclusion|DEI]] committee and banned "societal and political" conversations in the workplace, changes jointly announced by Hansson and Basecamp CEO Jason Fried.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hansson |first=David Heinemeier |date=26 April 2021 |title=Basecamp's new etiquette regarding societal politics at work |url=https://world.hey.com/dhh/basecamp-s-new-etiquette-regarding-societal-politics-at-work-b44bef69 |url-status=live |access-date=6 April 2026}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fried |first=Jason |date=26 April 2021 |title=Changes at Basecamp |url=https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5 |url-status=live |access-date=6 April 2026}}</ref> The changes appear to have been motivated by internal controversies within Basecamp. The Verge reports that a list of "Best Names Ever" was maintained by customer service representatives as an in-joke to nickname their customers, which is reported to have included numerous inappropriate or racist nicknames for Asian and African customers. The discussion of what to do about this list is said to have led to the change in policy.<blockquote>Interviews with a half-dozen Basecamp employees over the past day paint a portrait of a company where workers sought to advance Basecamp’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion by having sensitive discussions about the company’s own failures. After months of fraught conversations, Fried and his co-founder, David Heinemeier Hansson moved to shut those conversations down.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Newton |first=Casey |date=28 April 2021 |title=Behind the controversy at Basecamp |url=https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-political-speech-policy-controversy |url-status=live |access-date=6 April 2026 |website=The Verge}}</ref></blockquote>At the time, Hansson acknowledged that the list of names was wrong, but objected to employees who framed the list as a step in the "[https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/pyramid-of-hate pyramid of hate]", a tool used by the Anti-Defamation League to understand how hate develops in society, and stopped discussions which aimed for broader reforms to address the underlying issues at Basecamp.<ref name=":2" />
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