Lots personal anecdotes placing nerds on the centre-left, centre, liberal, but independent-minded rather than groupthinky. https://twitter.com/kprmsn/status/903604248398766080 …
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And gamergate was ridiculous. The attempt to paint them as ideological extremists failed utterly.
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No, I think that a substantial number of nerds have rightwing leanings that corresponds to some of Trump's talking points, eg. James Damore.
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James Damore got fired for saying gender differences existed by google. Surely google is full of nerds. Do they seem right-wing?
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The ideological extreme revealed by that was the kind of left-wing that can't tolerate science if contradicts gender ideology.
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No, he also got the science wrong.
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The consensus is no.
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But even if he did, people are allowed to be wrong. A nerdish environment which fires ppl for not accepting intersectional feminist views...
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...on gender does not seem to be one that is heavy on alt-right ideology.
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I wouldn't have fired him, but that isn't relevant. Nor is Google's employment written by intersectional feminists.
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