Because the claim is that they tend towards the alt-right & this is not my experience at all in relation to history or tech nerds at my unis
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Mine is that highly-analytical, low-socially-skilled people are less drawn to ideology than average whether religious or political.
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My experience is necessarily limited but I find that if I try to talk to very analytical colleagues about ideas about religion & gender...
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...they are more interested in what was actually happening in real terms than theology & ideology underpinning it.
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Well, not quite right. Interested in the ideas but not so much in exploring them moralistically in relation to current understanding.
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Less theory, more data. This doesn't lend itself to adhering to extreme ideological positions.
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Not apolitical but not extreme either. I've worked in universities so nearly everyone is left but they're often closest to centre-left.
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While not a stat, we know James Damore was fired from Google, and nobody else was. How many nerds work for Google?
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I'd call myself a tech nerd and very much a lefty (~social democrat). Pro: ironclad social safety net Anti: moralising personal choicespic.twitter.com/sotVQhLQIE
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"Nerd" is a pejorative term. We prefer to be called "geeks".
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I think the term "nerd" has been hijacked by "normies" who have a mild interest in comic books or science-y stuff, etc.
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And my husband who was socially awkward & bullied, etc makes a distinction; "nerds are smart, dorks aren't. I was a dork." lol :)
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