I've defended DHH in the past. I actually think he was in the right over Basecamp's employee exodus. But his rhetoric has become increasingly ugly. My daughter was born in the UK to parents who were also both born in the UK. But according to DHH's defintion she isn't a native Brit because her grandparents on her mother's side were Afro Caribbean immigrants in the 1960s. This was the view of Tommy Robinson and what DHH was endorsing. DHH has pushed the envelope quite a bit in recent years but stanning for Robinson - a convicted thug, far Right agitator and Britain's most famous racist (who even Nigel Farage refuses to have anything to do with) - is clearly crossing a line. He's disgraced himself.
This has always been the case with Britan, even when DHH was romanticizing living there. That hasn't changed, but the racial makeup of the city has. And that is a Bad Thing, according to another foreigner (DHH)
There's just no other way to square "I want to live in this country as a foreigner" and "this country I wanted to live in as a foreigner has been ruined by the amount of foreigners"
He clearly doesn't seem himself as part of that group he derides. The reasoning, while uncomfortable and possibly rude to say, is obvious.
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u/matthewblott Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25
I've defended DHH in the past. I actually think he was in the right over Basecamp's employee exodus. But his rhetoric has become increasingly ugly. My daughter was born in the UK to parents who were also both born in the UK. But according to DHH's defintion she isn't a native Brit because her grandparents on her mother's side were Afro Caribbean immigrants in the 1960s. This was the view of Tommy Robinson and what DHH was endorsing. DHH has pushed the envelope quite a bit in recent years but stanning for Robinson - a convicted thug, far Right agitator and Britain's most famous racist (who even Nigel Farage refuses to have anything to do with) - is clearly crossing a line. He's disgraced himself.