Have yet more anti-nerd talk going on on my FB. Very worrying. I need stats on any political trends in relation to nerdiness.
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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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Anecdotally, my experience is that "geeks", at least of the gaming/tabletop variety tend towards liberalism with an independent streak.
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Which would explain why their choice of entertainment is often the kind where they themselves have agency.
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Maybe some people see others which do not adhere to postmodernism as automatically clinging to the alt-right?
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That is the complete opposite of my experience. No stats but a huge sample size of anecdotal evidence.
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This is based on equating nerdiness with bitterness, which isn't true. And bitterness-induced extremism can recruit to any faction.
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