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The problem with nerd politics (The Guardian)

The problem with nerd politics (The Guardian)

Posted May 18, 2012 18:06 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: The problem with nerd politics (The Guardian) by gorpon
Parent article: The problem with nerd politics (The Guardian)

> Or is it a lack of consensus politically among geeks in other arenas of life? i.e. conservative geeks, liberal geeks, anarchist geeks etc...

geeks are no more a monolithic block of opinions than any other segment of the population (not that this fact stops people from referring to the 'Black vote' or the 'Jewish vote' etc and claiming to represent them)

In fact, Geeks tend by their nature to be independent thinkers, and so anyone making claims that all Geeks believe the same way on any topic (including technical ones) just doesn't know what they are talking about.


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