Comment by IshKebab

> he has written some other really vile things about transgender people.

Do you have a link? I suspect these "really vile things" will turn out to be not so vile (like JKR), just things you don't agree with.

> I'd like to leave my identity home and discuss software engineering and interesting technical ideas. DHH has made that impossible.

Really? Did he talk about politics at this Ruby conference? Seems like it is you that can't focus on Ruby.