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For the curious. This is the thing everyone is mad about. [0] I'll leave it you to decide if advocating that your country deport the homeless people who are pu

For the curious. This is the thing everyone is mad about. [0] I'll leave it you to decide if advocating that your country deport the homeless people who are publicly defecating in the bushes makes you into actual Hitler (as he's been compared to even in this post). [0] https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a

dismalaf 13d ago
One thing that needs to be noted is that the comparison to wolves isn't entirely random, it's also a current topic of political discussion in Denmark.
- mapontosevenths 13d ago
  I have no idea what you're implying. How does the wolf comparison make this a racism thing? He's saying that he wants the homeless people who poop in the bushes deported because like wolves there are too many, and they're dangerous. People who poop in public are like that. It has very little to do with racism as far as I can tell. I'm as liberal as they come, but I draw the line at shrubbery-shitting.
  - Hikikomori 13d ago
    Prey/predator analogies is what you'd find in der sturmer in the 30s.
  - dismalaf 13d ago
    > I have no idea what you're implying. How does the wolf comparison make this a racism thing? I was trying to reinforce it by saying the wolf comparison is a current public safety concern and has nothing to do with comparing Romani to actual animals.
    - mapontosevenths 13d ago
      I just didn't grasp what you meant, I thought you were saying there was some nuance to the local politics I missed. Thanks for clarifying.
  - KennyBlanken 13d ago
    > How does the wolf comparison make this a racism thing? Because wolves are being used as a dogwhistle/proxy for "migrants" by the far right. Denmark has a problem with wolves crossing into Denmark. So the far right gives speeches about what a menace wolves are, they don't belong here, they don't deserve to be here, they're not FROM here" and so on - while doing a lot of theatrical smiling and winking, or just shifting right into talking about immigrants and migrants, "totally separately and unconnected, bro! I just wanted to talk about them both while i was here!" You might want to not take anything David Hamburger Helper says at face value given he perpetuates far-right conspiracies / racist tropes like "Pakistani rape gangs."
    - bulbar 13d ago
      "So the far right gives speeches about what a menace wolves are, they don't belong here, they don't deserve to be here, they're not FROM here"" That doesn't sound like a far right position though, just advocating for less or even no migration (from outside EU I guess).
      - defrost 13d ago
        The "wolves" are, IIRC, "Romanian" gypsies - people that have lived for many generations within a number of European countries. Romania is part of the EU, when DHH suggests they are wolves that need to be deported, where is he suggesting they be deported to? The history of their arrival in Romania, around 1370, is presented below. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people_in_Romania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people_in_Romania Bear in mind the specific "gypsies" he had a bit of a rant about may well have been in 'his' country for a few generations already. > That doesn't sound like a far right position though And yet, they were on Hitler's list that included Jews, Gays, Disabled, Pinko's, etc.
        veeti 13d ago
        This seems like a common misconception, but it actually isn't an indivisible human right to settle in another EU country if you don't have the means to support yourself [1]. If you have ever been engaged by them, it's obvious the sort of "gypsies" panhandling and pooping on Copenhagen or Helsinki streets clearly do not meet the criteria and are not citizens. Left, right, north or south on the political compass, all parties are in agreement about this, and thousands of people are deported from Denmark every year without Alligator Alcatraz concentration camps or other platitudes about nazism. [1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/residence-rights/index_en.htm https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/residence-ri...
  - tastyface 13d ago
    "When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them." This is not "homeless pooping in the bushes," but just "gypsies". And the (very, very intentional) juxtaposition of killing wolves to deporting an entire ethnic group is revolting.
trescenzi 13d ago
Yea this was quite a post. There’s a lot of pointing at a post about immigration in England[1], and not that I agree, it wasn’t beyond the pale really. It was standard stuff. This piece is really over the top though and makes it very clear he sees those unlike him as subhuman. 1: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64
- mapontosevenths 13d ago
  I read it. I'm not sure I agree with your interpretation. I read it as pretty standard right-wing anti-immigration stuff. He even somewhat addresses it and tries to make it clear that he's not saying one race is better than another when he says: "There's absolutely nothing racist or xenophobic in saying that Denmark is primarily a country for the Danes, Britain primarily a united kingdom for the Brits, and Japan primarily a set of islands for the Japanese." I interpret him to be advocating for less immigration, and maybe some deportations of criminal types. He's allowed to. Personally, I disagree with him, but we're all adults. We're allowed to disagree and still respect each other. That's the basis of society. He's not advocating for violence and the hyperbole some people are coming up with is way overblown when compared to what he actually said. He is an average right-wing adult. Not some rabid fascist who wants death-camps.
  - tzs 13d ago
    By native Brits he means white people born in the UK [1]. People who are not white are not native Brits by his reckoning no matter how many generations their family has been there. I think that is a lot more extreme than the average UK right-wing adult. [1] Follow the link in his second paragraph and compare with the numbers he gives in that paragraph.
  - Hikikomori 13d ago
    The prey/predator analogy is what you'd find the der Sturmer nazi paper in the 30s. They also just wanted to deport the Jews, even worked with Zionists to do so in the early years. He can say write that the park camping and bush pooping is bad and that the police/government should do something about it, but he's not just writing that.
KennyBlanken 13d ago
That's just the latest. David Hamburger Helper is a lot more than just that, and he's been at this for years. https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/ https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug... https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... Jake's blog post points out how David Hamburger Helper is quite skilled at running right up to the line but not crossing it explicitly. His type is great at using weasel words and dog whistles. The kind of person who thinks he's clever for using hyperlinks in their blog posts to imply the shit they don't have the balls to say outright while going "tee hee I'm so clever for making every mention of Obama's name in my blog post a linking to the wikipedia article about bananas." (David Hamburger Helper didn't actually do this, it's an illustrative example.) In the US, conservatives pre-you-know-who would say things like "hard working Americans" (ie "not urban blacks on welfare taking public transit and using their food stamps to buy cigarettes and potato chips") or "American family values" (ie "not the gays") and so on.
- bulbar 13d ago
  I assumed you would link the actual articles, but instead you linked articles about his articles. One should start with the original sources at least. You got a good point, it's not always clear what people try to imply, on the other hand however I have experienced many times that interpretations were not really based on what was actually said/written. I like the first article in that regard as it is based on quoted sections. It does quite hard framing on what's actually written, but at least it's easier to judge the merit of the argument when it's side by side with the original quote it's based on.
  - mapontosevenths 13d ago
    I did cite the source. That blog is doing a Lot of"reading between the lines."
xtracto 13d ago
Crap... the crazy thing is that apparently this person is behind RoR. I guess someone boycotting him would need to stop using the internet.
- Brian_K_White 13d ago
  He's merely the most uninteresting unremarkable thing in the word, a douchebag who can code. Sure RoR is nice, and he's a asshole. Go ahead and use RoR, and don't admire him or value his deep thoughts in any other way.
  - xtracto 12d ago
    I subscribe to a similar view: I admire things and ideas produced by "worse people" (people that have done worst things in my opinion) than this dude. It's like the Iced Earth singer drama, or Kevin Spacey. I admire their work, I enjoy their performances, still I think their actions are deplorable and will be happy if they are brought to justice.
UncleMeat 12d ago
There is much more than just this one post. I also don't think that your portrayal of the text is accurate.

dismalaf 13d ago

One thing that needs to be noted is that the comparison to wolves isn't entirely random, it's also a current topic of political discussion in Denmark.

mapontosevenths 13d ago
I have no idea what you're implying. How does the wolf comparison make this a racism thing? He's saying that he wants the homeless people who poop in the bushes deported because like wolves there are too many, and they're dangerous. People who poop in public are like that. It has very little to do with racism as far as I can tell. I'm as liberal as they come, but I draw the line at shrubbery-shitting.
- Hikikomori 13d ago
  Prey/predator analogies is what you'd find in der sturmer in the 30s.
- dismalaf 13d ago
  > I have no idea what you're implying. How does the wolf comparison make this a racism thing? I was trying to reinforce it by saying the wolf comparison is a current public safety concern and has nothing to do with comparing Romani to actual animals.
  - mapontosevenths 13d ago
    I just didn't grasp what you meant, I thought you were saying there was some nuance to the local politics I missed. Thanks for clarifying.
- KennyBlanken 13d ago
  > How does the wolf comparison make this a racism thing? Because wolves are being used as a dogwhistle/proxy for "migrants" by the far right. Denmark has a problem with wolves crossing into Denmark. So the far right gives speeches about what a menace wolves are, they don't belong here, they don't deserve to be here, they're not FROM here" and so on - while doing a lot of theatrical smiling and winking, or just shifting right into talking about immigrants and migrants, "totally separately and unconnected, bro! I just wanted to talk about them both while i was here!" You might want to not take anything David Hamburger Helper says at face value given he perpetuates far-right conspiracies / racist tropes like "Pakistani rape gangs."
  - bulbar 13d ago
    "So the far right gives speeches about what a menace wolves are, they don't belong here, they don't deserve to be here, they're not FROM here"" That doesn't sound like a far right position though, just advocating for less or even no migration (from outside EU I guess).
    - defrost 13d ago
      The "wolves" are, IIRC, "Romanian" gypsies - people that have lived for many generations within a number of European countries. Romania is part of the EU, when DHH suggests they are wolves that need to be deported, where is he suggesting they be deported to? The history of their arrival in Romania, around 1370, is presented below. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people_in_Romania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people_in_Romania Bear in mind the specific "gypsies" he had a bit of a rant about may well have been in 'his' country for a few generations already. > That doesn't sound like a far right position though And yet, they were on Hitler's list that included Jews, Gays, Disabled, Pinko's, etc.
      - veeti 13d ago
        This seems like a common misconception, but it actually isn't an indivisible human right to settle in another EU country if you don't have the means to support yourself [1]. If you have ever been engaged by them, it's obvious the sort of "gypsies" panhandling and pooping on Copenhagen or Helsinki streets clearly do not meet the criteria and are not citizens. Left, right, north or south on the political compass, all parties are in agreement about this, and thousands of people are deported from Denmark every year without Alligator Alcatraz concentration camps or other platitudes about nazism. [1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/residence-rights/index_en.htm https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/residence-ri...
- tastyface 13d ago
  "When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them." This is not "homeless pooping in the bushes," but just "gypsies". And the (very, very intentional) juxtaposition of killing wolves to deporting an entire ethnic group is revolting.

trescenzi 13d ago

Yea this was quite a post. There’s a lot of pointing at a post about immigration in England[1], and not that I agree, it wasn’t beyond the pale really. It was standard stuff. This piece is really over the top though and makes it very clear he sees those unlike him as subhuman. 1: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

mapontosevenths 13d ago
I read it. I'm not sure I agree with your interpretation. I read it as pretty standard right-wing anti-immigration stuff. He even somewhat addresses it and tries to make it clear that he's not saying one race is better than another when he says: "There's absolutely nothing racist or xenophobic in saying that Denmark is primarily a country for the Danes, Britain primarily a united kingdom for the Brits, and Japan primarily a set of islands for the Japanese." I interpret him to be advocating for less immigration, and maybe some deportations of criminal types. He's allowed to. Personally, I disagree with him, but we're all adults. We're allowed to disagree and still respect each other. That's the basis of society. He's not advocating for violence and the hyperbole some people are coming up with is way overblown when compared to what he actually said. He is an average right-wing adult. Not some rabid fascist who wants death-camps.
- tzs 13d ago
  By native Brits he means white people born in the UK [1]. People who are not white are not native Brits by his reckoning no matter how many generations their family has been there. I think that is a lot more extreme than the average UK right-wing adult. [1] Follow the link in his second paragraph and compare with the numbers he gives in that paragraph.
- Hikikomori 13d ago
  The prey/predator analogy is what you'd find the der Sturmer nazi paper in the 30s. They also just wanted to deport the Jews, even worked with Zionists to do so in the early years. He can say write that the park camping and bush pooping is bad and that the police/government should do something about it, but he's not just writing that.

KennyBlanken 13d ago

That's just the latest. David Hamburger Helper is a lot more than just that, and he's been at this for years. https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/ https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug... https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... Jake's blog post points out how David Hamburger Helper is quite skilled at running right up to the line but not crossing it explicitly. His type is great at using weasel words and dog whistles. The kind of person who thinks he's clever for using hyperlinks in their blog posts to imply the shit they don't have the balls to say outright while going "tee hee I'm so clever for making every mention of Obama's name in my blog post a linking to the wikipedia article about bananas." (David Hamburger Helper didn't actually do this, it's an illustrative example.) In the US, conservatives pre-you-know-who would say things like "hard working Americans" (ie "not urban blacks on welfare taking public transit and using their food stamps to buy cigarettes and potato chips") or "American family values" (ie "not the gays") and so on.

bulbar 13d ago
I assumed you would link the actual articles, but instead you linked articles about his articles. One should start with the original sources at least. You got a good point, it's not always clear what people try to imply, on the other hand however I have experienced many times that interpretations were not really based on what was actually said/written. I like the first article in that regard as it is based on quoted sections. It does quite hard framing on what's actually written, but at least it's easier to judge the merit of the argument when it's side by side with the original quote it's based on.
- mapontosevenths 13d ago
  I did cite the source. That blog is doing a Lot of"reading between the lines."

xtracto 13d ago

Crap... the crazy thing is that apparently this person is behind RoR. I guess someone boycotting him would need to stop using the internet.

Brian_K_White 13d ago
He's merely the most uninteresting unremarkable thing in the word, a douchebag who can code. Sure RoR is nice, and he's a asshole. Go ahead and use RoR, and don't admire him or value his deep thoughts in any other way.
- xtracto 12d ago
  I subscribe to a similar view: I admire things and ideas produced by "worse people" (people that have done worst things in my opinion) than this dude. It's like the Iced Earth singer drama, or Kevin Spacey. I admire their work, I enjoy their performances, still I think their actions are deplorable and will be happy if they are brought to justice.

UncleMeat 12d ago

There is much more than just this one post. I also don't think that your portrayal of the text is accurate.