Everyone is responsible for their own actions and DHH hasn't made anybody do anything. The reactions to his statements, whether you agree with what he said or not, are entirely voluntary.
What it does reveal is the fragility of a community that can seemingly be disrupted because of a single controversial blog post from a guy known to be controversial. This has counter-intuitively elevated DHH's position to that of a lynchpin, accentuating his importance as opposed to pressing him into obscurity.
I personally found DHH's take reprehensible and whatever respect I had for the man has all but vanished, but the Ruby community really does like to throw the baby out with the bathwater sometimes.
It wasn't DHH's latest awful blog post that made Mike Perham pull Sidekiq's support. It was because Ruby Central invited him back to the last Railsconf, after having kicked him out of Railsconf 2 years prior for his awful blog posts.
So, let me get this straight, you blame Sidekiq (and others!) for pulling their sponsorship, thus throwing the baby (rubygems.org) with the bath water (the reputational damage they'd get from being associated with Ruby Central and DHH)?
Notably I didn't use the word 'blame' but correctly assigned accountability to the people who made the decisions they did, for whatever reason they had. The parenthetical examples are yours alone, not mine.
Beyond that, yes...the Ruby community is dramatic and this is not the first time a furore has been made over some inter-community conflict with a bunch of reactionary stuff kicking off.
What it does reveal is the fragility of a community that can seemingly be disrupted because of a single controversial blog post from a guy known to be controversial. This has counter-intuitively elevated DHH's position to that of a lynchpin, accentuating his importance as opposed to pressing him into obscurity.
I personally found DHH's take reprehensible and whatever respect I had for the man has all but vanished, but the Ruby community really does like to throw the baby out with the bathwater sometimes.