paddybrown wrote:welch wrote:
Dude, nerds haven't been an underclass since everyone woke up and realized that Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and the rest were *billionaires* and effectively running all the things that matter in the modern world. If anything, nerds are at the top of the heap and have been for a long time. This myth of the poor oppressed nerd, as a generalization has to go. Society is killing off non-stem education as fast as it can, and schools that have to beg for a history book have more computers than they know what to do with. Are SOME nerds still bullied? Sure, so are some fat kids. But the idea that they're all still living the first half of "revenge of the nerds" is...nonsense and has been for some time.
Frontman fallacy. What you're saying is the equivalent of "Barack Obama is president of the United States, therefore black people are the most powerful people in America". While most successful IT entrepreneurs may be nerds, the
vast majority of nerds aren't even IT nerds, never mind successful ones.
And I've never said nerds are an "underclass" or "oppressed", so stop putting words in my mouth. Most nerds do okay, but in my experience they tend to have a lingering inferiority complex from their childhood experiences.
When black politicians run the companies that control virtually all of the worlds computational resources and therefore things like: Banking, Other finance, aviation and the rest, you just let me know. One black president and a handful of other black politicians are a very different thing from the tech companies that now run well...everything.
As far as the rest, spare me the "i didn't actually use that word shit". the implication that somehow nerds are still some form of bagged on morlocks is pretty clear, and it's that mythos that helps excuse the appalling shit nerds do. As far as inferiority complexes, that ain't because they're nerds. What fucking major group of nerds isn't held up in high esteem these days?
Comic Book nerds? Riiiight. Comiccon is one of, if not the largest events in the country, SD version in particular, and you can't kick a theatre or a TV set without 4 people with super powers falling out.
Oh, wait, it's the maker nerds. No, no, they're now exalted to with all the Maker this, and maker thats.
Gamers? Mayyyybe, but once you step outside of a handful of controversies, being a gamer is about as much of an underclass as driving a car.
being a "nerd" is no longer any form of underclass or even a reason to be shit on. everyone is a nerd, everyone is a geek. Even fucking hipsters.
Front man fallacy nothing, maybe you should stop projecting from either a long-dead stereotype or personal experience.
