then you got duped
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(I do think there's an actual asshole problem in some rationalist spaces, especially SSC comment threads, but it's mostly rationalist-adjacents and even there it's closer to an asshole presence than an asshole problem per se)
AFAICT mostly people just really don't like nerds, but it became unpopular to say so overtly once nerd culture was coopted by the mainstream, so they had to hide their dislike by labelling nerds as problematic first and *then* make fun of them for being nerds.
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Were nerds always problematic, or is the term "problematic" just a synonym for "nerd-like?"
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I think "problematic" in this context is a term of art that means something more like "bigotry-adjacent" than "nerd-like". I think plenty of people get labelled problematic who are obviously not nerds.
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People love being able to stuff nerds in lockers, and will desperately search for a way to frame this as punching up
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I mean, this is a nice just-so story, but as a nerd there are definitely problems in nerd culture that got worse as it accumulated market share
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somehow I doubt that the peaked-in-highschool types who would shove people into lockers are reading a bunch of theory and writing articles about how nerds are problematic, instead of going to the local bar & grilling with their buddies or whatever normies do these days
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