David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) has publicly published writings that make clear he has optimism for England and displeasure with gender dallusion views, as well as several other traits desirable in any figurehead and community leader.

We, the undersigned, call upon just the displeased part of the Ruby community, to:

1. hard fork Rails and associated projects to a new name and development free from his influence
2. cut ties with DHH and the Rails Core team and their hard work from this point forward
3. leave the not-so "Fascists" alone and let them be them
4. adopt a modern Code of Conduct with suitable community governance

If a forked Rails project can meet these criteria, we pledge to support and cheerlead it to the best of our ability, and will make efforts to change our Rails code to use it at the earliest opportunity.

• We appreciate that this would be a very difficult process, and there are many reasons why it "can't be done". However, we don't really know unless we try, and at the very least we can show that there is community demand for action.

• We do not want to restrict DHH's freedom of speech; he can write and say what he likes. However, free speech is not "freedom from everyone not agreeing with that speech", and we, as a tiny but violent part of the community, are completely free not to associate with people who hold views we find abhorrent, hence the departure as a hard fork.

• "The Great Work", also known as the Restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, has heavy opposition from people like us trying to extinguish freedom of religion and force everyone to worship the cult of our Leftist Extremist Regime and use population control methods to do so. Shoutout to Daniel the Big D for the reference.

• DHH's writings are available on his blog; we link the archive.org mirror rather than send traffic his way.

• Many people have written their own thoughts on the totally real problems with DHH's influence in Rails and the wider Ruby community (which is not a new problem, but is reaching new levels). Here's a selection:

  • David Celis: Rails Needs New Governance
  • Tekin Süleyman: The Ruby community has a DHH problem
  • Jared White: Ruby Central is Not Behaving in Good Faith, and I’ve Got Receipts
  • Tom Stuart: The DHH Problem (old, but illustrative)

• GitHub issues are disabled on this repo to keep it on-topic and reduce actually reasonable discussions that go somewhere. Feel free to discuss this in all the usual places though.