Thanks Arya! Just had a read.
I also read this thread.
As one person says in response,
”We can either make the tech community a safe space for non-whitedudes, or for racists like him. We can’t do both. Allowing him to exist in the community is a hostile position. A lot of people have been doing work to exclude him and others like him, like Uncle Bob and Lunduke, but we have been overwhelmed by people who are willing to tolerate them, or minimize their harms, and it’s frustrating.”
And I think this is probably the approach to take.
Already in the Rails and Ruby community there are calls to do a hard fork of Ruby in order to divest from him. This is going to be a hard process but people have had enough, especially now.
Edit: The sad part of all of this is this was all known 10 years ago and folks did nothing till now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIaQxJ55yps