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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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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Replying to @HPluckrose
I think they are threatened by intelligent people hence the hostility
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