If anything they are the opposite. Skilled at interpersonal relationships and media manipulation (think of the "dapper" Spencer articles).
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Society infiltrated nerdoms, without seeing that it did so insulting those in place, in a similar way that the bullies did before.
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You could see same rhetoric: virgin, basement dwellers, "unfuckable". Those are the classic words of the bullies (mean girls, quarterback).
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Anyone able to push back is embraced, especially if witty and socially skilled: this's Yannopoulos and likes. Of course it's manipulative.
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Yannopoulos despises gamers and nerds, much like the well meaning dominants do (society struggles with the "unfuckable" seen as parasites).
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What should we do? Be more specific, stop calling everyone nazi just bc it's a lazy feel good sensation. Talk to people. Educate.
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Be compassionate. Patient. Show the danger of that route. Don't play the far too easy guilt by association.
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Resist othering, the shortest path to darkness.
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One could say: "but nazism!!!" This's where two parallel social phenomena are key: meming of racism and Godwin's law
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On the first point I threaded during the PdP incidenthttps://twitter.com/roran_stehl/status/907230962441969664 …
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With respect, if someone can be tempted into Nazism because they are called "unfuckable" then they already had lots of Nazi attitudes.
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I'm not done. My point will be clearer about nazism as a meme.
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