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== "As I remember London" ==

David's article relies on allusions to indirectly support racist views. For example, the second paragraph reads:<blockquote>London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's [[wikipedia:Ethnic_groups_in_London|no longer full of native Brits]]. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.</blockquote>The paragraph cites the Wikipedia article "[[wikipedia:Ethnic_groups_in_London|Ethnic groups in London]]", which explains that 59% of London residents were born in the UK, but only 36% are white.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ethnic groups in London |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London |url-status=live |access-date=6 April 2026 |website=Wikipedia}}</ref> David's article can be shown to exclude the non-white people who make up the difference between these figures. The article uses classic [[fascist]] argumentation tactics, relying on an emotional appeal to the discomfort of white readers with racist perceptions of the everyday makeup of people one may encounter in London. The article evokes nostalgia for a past where non-white people were less visible, and plays up British [[Nationalism|nationalist]] myth-making by relating symbols such as [[wikipedia:Big_Ben|Big Ben]] and [[wikipedia:London_Underground|The Tube]] to British (white) identity. David addresses "native Britons" in heroic, galvanizing terms, and calls for [[Ethnocracy|organizing states along ethnic lines]]:<blockquote>You can rest assured that I'd be in the streets waving a Danish flag if these were my conditions in my native country. I think that's a pretty universal sentiment. There's absolutely nothing racist or xenophobic in saying that Denmark is primarily a country for the Danes, Britain primarily a united kingdom for the Brits, and Japan primarily a set of islands for the Japanese.</blockquote>David's arguments rely primarily on emotions and manipulating facts to stoke those emotions, for example disingenuously citing immigration as the cause of changing demographics in London, though a majority of London residents were born in the UK. The article's coverage of the "[[wikipedia:Grooming_gangs_scandal|Grooming gangs scandal]]" appeals to racist fears over the rape of innocent white women by racialized and de-humanized caricatures of the out-group:<blockquote>I really feel for the Brits because it's not obvious how they get themselves out of this pickle. They're still reeling from the Pakistani rape gangs that were left free to terrorize cities like Rotherham and Rochdale for years on end with horror-movie-like scenes of the most despicable, depraved abuse of British girls.

 

 

=== Response from the Ruby on Rails community ===

 

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Omarchy is a pre-configured Arch Linux-based Linux distribution "by DHH" using the [[Hyprland]] desktop environment, founded by David Heinemeier Hansson.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hansson |first=David Heinemeier |date=26 June 2025 |title=Omarchy is out |url=https://world.hey.com/dhh/omarchy-is-out-4666dd31 |url-status=live |access-date=6 April 2026 |website=David Heinemeier Hansson}}</ref> Hyprland is controversial, in particular for its project leader, Vaxry, who expresses trans- and homophobic rhetoric and portrays himself and Hyprland as victims of the [[RedHat DEI conspiracy theory]].