Antti Mattila
jake lazaroffshow this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/
maybe now that i've gotten all of this out of my brain i'll have time to finally start hades 2
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@jakelazaroff if he thinks London in late 1990s/2000s was "more white", where the fuck was he hiding?
London has been a multicultural city since before I was born (and I'm in my 50s), and it was most definitely the case in the 90s/00s, unless he never ventured outside an office in the City of London or the tourist trap areas of the West End...
Esteban Küber 
@vfrmedia @jakelazaroff London has been multicultural since it was called Londinium
zygmydThank you, very useful.
Daphne Preston-Kendal@jakelazaroff @Floppy link this from the Plan Vert letter, too?
James Smith 💾@dpk @jakelazaroff will do, that’s an excellent writeup!
Nicole ParsonsHad a very similar back-and-forth with all these stereotypes with this account @ kravietz @ agora. echelon. pl
All the standard BS racist narratives about crime (no stats provided), "incompatible values" (few details provided), mutual aid practices, work ethic (no data provided), strains on public services (no details), & tax evasion.
Favored tactic is group punishments for the acts of a few. Tarnishing everyone in a group for rare or old incidents.
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Got miffed when tax evading billionaires who exploit xenophobia & fund malign influence campaigns to enrich themselves got brought up.
The use of euphemistic language to dehumanize.
The use of vague anecdotal evidence, years old events, & putting it on a loop like Fox "News" does.
All so senile people like Trump, can be made to think it happened yesterday & all the time.
The subsequent conversations with the mayor of Portland, Oregon are hilarious.
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She's looking out her office window at a bright, sunny, peaceful street.
Trump's looking at a TV screen of footage of riots 8 years ago.
Historical events cherry picked to sound like it happened yesterday. Evangelicals still harping about sharia law & a 9th century atrocity in Cordoba
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-muslim-texas-housing-plan-became-target-right-wing-hysteria-how
https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hic3.12603
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia_in_the_United_States
Yugoslavia dissolved into internecine civil war using these types of disinformation tactics. Old grudges revived for elite benefit.
Alexander 😷@jakelazaroff Love how he snuck "suicidal empathy" in there, to make sure the Trump fascists don't feel left out. What a pathetic little Nazi 💩.
Panicz Maciej Godek@jakelazaroff to be honest, there seems to be a strong wave of nationalism all over Europe (which is terrifying me, because it's so reminescent of what was happening here 100 years ago, only now it also seems to include America as well)
Daniël Franke 
@PaniczGodek @jakelazaroff Back then it included the US as well, there was a huge Nazi movement there as well, the war just made them unpopular.
Riccardo Mori@jakelazaroff Found this post (and your profile) via a boost in my timeline. I really loved the article — and your blog design while we’re at it. I’m coming from a similar place as yours, meaning that I didn’t know DHH very well and I, too, assumed he was just a normal person who simply had different political ideas from mine. But when someone pointed me to that post, I was like “Whaaaat!?”
@jakelazaroff Also, I know it’s probably just a rhetorical device to start talking about the people, but I found so weird that a person couldn’t be infatuated anymore with a city because of the people living in it. I stayed in Paris 13 years ago. I sorely miss it. But when I think about it, it’s not that I miss the white native Parisians. I miss the places, the streets, the cafés, the Opera, the museums, the bookshops; I miss moving through it, the atmosphere. I miss hearing people speak French.
@jakelazaroff I’ll certainly boost your article. Again, all well said, and I’m 100% with you. Cheers!
Ian@jakelazaroff Great article. Way to call out the fact that he tried to couch "far right" as a trope in order to try an insinuate that far right extremists somehow aren't.
One suggestion I'd make is to remove the link to his blog post and just keep the title. It really doesn't need any more eyeballs or Google back-links.
@soviut thank you! i considered removing the link but part of me is afraid people will think i'm hiding something if i don't include it. seems better than having people search for his blog? maybe i'm overthinking things, idk. the link is to archive.org tho so i shouldn't be contributing any google juice.
@jakelazaroff Ah okay, you could mention that it's an archive.org link to reassure people he's not getting any traffic or page rank from it.
Omar Antolín@soviut For what it's worth, I disagree: I prefer to read for myself and make up my own mind and a link to archive.org makes that very convenient to do. (And having read DHH's post, I do agree with everything said in this post.)
@oantolin My original concern was a direct link, since that improves page rank, potentially getting DHH in front of more people who may lack your critical thinking skills.
The link to archive.org is a great solution.
zbrown
Sunny 
@jakelazaroff Great piece.
FND@jakelazaroff thank you very much for this admirable dissection of such despicable trash, and for being vocal about where you stand
Nate Vack 🍴@jakelazaroff My favorite companion to this is where he wrote about how he and his family were leaving Denmark because they decided they couldn't integrate despite his being Danish and them all being white as well as impossibly rich:
https://world.hey.com/dhh/back-to-america-7e878fa2
"I totally get why people oppose immigration," he says while returning to his home in a foreign country
Back to America
After spending much of the past three years in Denmark, our family is returning to America full time this summer. The original reasons for temporarily emigrating – the prolonged school lockdowns and other pandemic madness – have long since evaporated, and we've had a solid chance to taste all that Copenhagen has to offer. And that's a ...
ReinaldoRauch@njvack @jakelazaroff the guy said that Copenhagen was pretty great for children. That alone would make me stay there, wth
ben@njvack @jakelazaroff yeah, same in the recent post — “I, a non-British person, don’t want to live in London because there are too many non-British people there”.
Like, all of those “non-native British” people are at the very least more British than he is! So quite apart from it being obviously extremely racist, I just can’t get over how he clearly thinks he’s very clever and yet is nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is.
Civic Tech Threads@jakelazaroff first, amazing website, teach me your ways, secondly, what a lunatic, wasting our air.
Felipe Cerda@jakelazaroff great post! And what a crazy person DHH. I used to follow him but I stopped for some other similar crazy comments in the past. Now it’s even worse.
LR@jakelazaroff normal... conservative. a strange juxtaposition of adjectives.
ragectl@jakelazaroff I see that scum Brian Tamaki gets a mention via his appearance in London.
I'd just like to point out that self-appointed religious phony and serial grifter and his cult of ex-gang members are seen as extremists and outcasts even in New Zealand. They paid for a group of their cultists to fly to London to spew hate, which was also widely condemned.
@ragectl @jakelazaroff Tamaki has a gang of violent thugs at his command, which he uses to incite fear among the public in pursuit of his political objectives. Their shirts aren’t brown, but…
“… Brian Tamaki told his congregation this morning he gave members the green light to storm the library...
‘I want you to storm the library they’re in and shut it down.’…
About 30 toddlers, young children and adults had to be barricaded inside, RNZ reported.”
JacquelineThe line between "normal conservative dude" and "raging white supremacist lunatic" has always been dangerously thin.
chx@jakelazaroff made me think of John De Goes.
BasilThis is a great write-up from, especially from a non-uk perspective.
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) is well known here and is unmistakably a racist, it's not close to being a grey area.
He's made his entire career on being the poster boy of the thuggish racist right.
Mention of him for any reason other than condemnation shows the world who you are.
But here we are... In the "was Hitler really a fascist or is the term overused" stage of the timeline.
@jakelazaroff this is a great post, thank you!
If I may suggest a tiny addition, the census stats from 2021 show only 20%ish of Londoners do not state a UK identity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_London#National_identity
Do you mind if I link this from https://github.com/Plan-Vert/open-letter ?
@Floppy thank you! yes, feel free to link to it from wherever.
will see if i can work in that census stat at some point but i kinda feel like if someone reads the post and isn't already convinced, adding more statistics isn't gonna do the trick. i shaved off ~1000 words in the editing process and honestly if i'd had more time and all the writing and research hadn't emotionally drained me i would've tried to make it even shorter!
@jakelazaroff no, totally, you're absolutely right!
That's just the one thing I would have added that's not already there, so I thought I'd mention it just in case. :)
@Floppy yeah, no worries :)
Ölbaum@jakelazaroff I love the design of your blog. It’s been a long time since I opened a web page and actively noticed how pleasant it was to look at and read.
Alvan 🇵🇸 
@jakelazaroff thank you so much or writing this. it summarizes the whole situation.
I too - as a fellow techy person - used to respect him because of his OSS contributions. But I dug deeper after seeing that london post, and it is indeed cursed. Every piece of tech he touched feels dirty now.
Andy Allan@jakelazaroff Thanks for writing this.
I was seething about the utterly racist "you're not actually British unless you're also white" part when I read it at at time, but I couldn't have put my thoughts into words as well as you have done.
Martin the paranoid android@jakelazaroff Also him seeing nothing contradictory in him, a Dane, *choosing* whether he would consider living in a city that he claims has too many non-Brits. That is…yeah.
Val Packett 🧉@jakelazaroff oh wtf it's completely mask off nazi shit
Adolfo Neto@jakelazaroff @maco Thanks, Mackenzie, for boosting this.
Tala@jakelazaroff LOL. LMAO even. You losers really have lost the plot.
@talanbb honestly surprised it took this long for a racist to come into my mentions in response to this
Triston [ ทริสตัน ]@jakelazaroff @talanbb huh? Did they change their account or something? Not even remotely screaming racist?
@TristonArmstrong no idea, i'm saying that based purely on this one reply of theirs
@TristonArmstrong @jakelazaroff Forgive Jake. He only has room for one thought in his brain: racism. Or on alternating days: nazis.
@talanbb @TristonArmstrong a lot of projection happening here
@jakelazaroff just curious: if you replace the country in question with Japan, would you still hold this opinion? E.g. doesnt want to live in Japan because its becoming less Japanese blah blah.. all hypothetical of course
@TristonArmstrong yes, if your definition of "native Xish" excludes people who were *born and raised in X* simply because they're not your favorite race then you are a bigot
as an aside i'd really love to know why people are so obsessed with bringing up japan when they hear this critique
@jakelazaroff at least you're consistent. Japan is an easy option as it's got a very specific image in most people's minds. Its prominent. It's small and thus immigration issues would be more obvious, quicker. Just easy to conceptualize. And most people go to Japan specifically for its Japanese culture and atmosphere. It'd be easy to imagine how oneself would feel If that were interrupted.. does that make sense?
32th System@jakelazaroff great work. While browsing his blog I also found this transphobia article which I noticed more immediately cause it's an issue I'm more familiar with https://world.hey.com/dhh/gender-and-sexuality-alliances-in-primary-school-at-cis-97f66c06
Gender and Sexuality Alliances in primary school at CIS?!
The Copenhagen International School is a wonderful private school located in the North Harbor of the city. It's home to over 900 students from around the world. This is where ambassadors, international executives, and other expats send their kids to get a great education in English while stationed in Denmark. As a result, it's perhaps ...
@32th thanks! the transphobia is extremely unsurprising, i didn't bother browsing his blog beyond this one article but i figured as much when he shouted out graham linehan