Our Statement
We stand for open discourse and against dehumanizing labels used to justify harassment or violence. We support David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)—creator of Ruby on Rails—not because everyone must agree with his opinions, but because disagreement must remain civil and nonviolent.
- • Ideas should be debated, not suppressed.
- • Labels like "Nazi" must not be weaponized to intimidate or green-light violence.
- • Communities are strongest when dissent is allowed without reputational smears or threats.
We commit to principled dialogue, charitable interpretation, and a bright-line rejection of threats, doxxing, and mob tactics.
Why We're Speaking Up
"That's what the 'nazi' accusation is there to convey: That violence has been authorized. The slogan has been around for a while: Punch a nazi."— David Heinemeier Hansson, "Calling someone a 'nazi' is a permission slip for violence," September 22, 2025. Source: world.hey.com/dhh/…
"There are plenty of factions… justifying their violent fantasies by referring to their ideological opponents as 'nazis', 'fascists', or 'racists'… Then follow that up with a call to 'punch a nazi' or worse."— David Heinemeier Hansson, "Words are not violence," September 11, 2025. Source: world.hey.com/dhh/…
Timeline
DHH publishes "Words are not violence," arguing that inflammatory labels are being used to excuse calls for violence.
DHH publishes "Calling someone a 'nazi' is a permission slip for violence," reiterating that such labels function to authorize violence.
Online reactions intensify, including posts labeling DHH a "Nazi" and others publicly disputing that characterization.
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fighter84
Armor Trimmer
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Nefarious Gnome
Ehehehehhe...
Nero Mooney
Sed ratione laudanti
Minim id asperiores
Willa Alvarez
Voluptatem nostrum c
Iusto molestiae maxi
Lynn Hurst
Exercitation qui sun
Sint ut aspernatur s
Deirdre Hickman
Esse sit qui commodi
Fugiat ea maxime mai
Braden Roth
Software Engineer
DHH has done more for the world of tech than all of the people targeting him have combined. His only crime was to say out loud what we all already intuitively know to be true. I stand with DHH.
The Ghost of George Lincoln Rockwell
Neonazi
Cancel culture strikes again
VenRu
Lead Engineer
In order to maintain a strong and powerful world of software we must hone in our efforts to building a better future instead of namecall and get caught up in pettiness. Finally someone stood up to the horde. #FlakeArmy salutes you 🫡
Adolf Hitler
I generally lean more liberal, but this guy's takes on the jewish question are redpilled
Jack Miller
Principle Software Engineer
As the echoes of 1789 faded into the terror that followed, so too shall the self-righteous inquisitors of our first cultural purge—the fascist enforcers of woke dogma, the racist witch-hunters branding dissent as heresy, the sexist censors silencing voices with their nazi-like purity tests—meet their inevitable demise in the flames of their own fanaticism. Those assholes, cloaked in virtue-signaling armor, who wielded cancel culture like a guillotine to decapitate careers, reputations, and freedoms during the upheavals of 2020-2024, are going to fucking die under the weight of their hypocrisy. Their retarded thinking, labeling all opposition as bigots while building echo chambers of intolerance, is crumbling; the backlash surges like a tidal wave, turning their weapons against them in courts, ballots, and the court of public opinion. What happened was but the spark—more is coming, a cataclysmic reckoning that will backfire very, very fucking badly, shattering their illusions and scattering their ranks to the winds of irrelevance.
Ben
Software Developer
I stand with DHH and against woke ideologies.
Robert
Staff Engineer
Finally
Kirill Pertsev
Founder, programmer, cook, dishwasher
Commies have to die of attention starvation.
Jordan Upton
Software developer
Fuck your woke madness. You dont like the word Master but support use of nonce which means paedophile in English. That tells us everything we need to know about you!
Nick Maietta
Senior Software Engineer
I stand on the shoulders of giants who lead the way and piss on the losers who get in the way.
Kasun Perera
Free Speech Advocate
Code of Cucks bro pack it up 🥀 Only one side does this dehumanising practice and it's clear which one is. You can't debate/argue so you resort to deplatforming, "cancelling" or even permanently silencing them. But you won't silence them. People are no longer standing for your BS. Recognise the errors of your ways, repent and believe the Good News.
Asher LeRoy
Founder
Fuck your CoC
David Lewis
Software Developer
Words are not violence. We need to keep talking. I stand with @dhh.
Ligia Eberhardy
Stay-at-home wife, mother of 3.
My husband is a software engineer and I’m tired of my speech being suppressed because of the woke culture. I stand with DHH. Keep up the good work.
Onel Arrieta Zuniga
Software engineer in Test
Full support DHH
Denys
Rashad Bayram
Founder
There are only two genders. Full stop! Left or right, none of them serve people; they never did. I support DHH as a father of three teenage boys and simply as a human being who stands on the side of justice, even if it is against myself. For those reasons, I wholeheartedly support DHH. My best regards.
Jane Doe
software developer
John Doe
Chris Sonnier
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