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ech legend David Heinemeier Hansson has declared that the “woke” Left’s reign of terror on social media is now over because the leftist “Twitter mobs” have lost control.
Hansson is the creator of the web development framework Ruby on Rails and co-founder of Basecamp.
In a statement on his website, Hansson said that Elon Musk’s crusade to restore free speech on Twitter has ended the “woke” Left’s “victory” over culture.
“The acronym for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion entered the common corporate lexicon with overwhelming force in 2020,” he said.
“Executives everywhere quickly learned they needed a passable position on DEI to stay employed, and a cottage industry of consultants sprung up to provide it.
“There were endless proclamations of ‘doing the work,’ some employees were told to ‘be less white,’ and sympathy statements for public protests abounded.
“It was a near-total victory over existing corporate culture in America.
“The rout turned traditional concepts of meritocracy, color blindness, and equality of opportunity into something ‘problematic’ and ‘toxic.’
“It spawned a constant churn of denunciations and cancelations.
“Both for transgressions against the new orthodoxy committed in the moment and for those in the distant past.
