Yeah like. When I was a Freshman, the anime club were exclusionary dicks. I had more conflict with them then anybody who played sports. Hell I probably couldn't name anyone who played sports except a couple people in Track and Field.
This is why Scott Alexander banned me from his website simply for doing the nerdy work of reading carefully and exposing one of his jock buddies for deliberately misquoting. He's a jock who can't handle any sort of free-thought or dissent. Regardless, nerdy Marxists such as myself are currently making good headway in the free marketplace of ideas. If Scott Alexander thinks he can simply 'cancel' Marxism he is sorely mistaken.
She wrote an article which dunked on musk et all. Her notifications are prob filled with weird nerds attacking her for that. She is also clearly a nerd herself. Amd she has been getting a lot of hate from very annoying people from a while now. Stupidpol hates her for example.
It is a form of self deprecation. Anyway, you do know sneerclub stance on nerds right? *I say from inside my locker*
E: thinking about it a bit more, yeah it is indeed a bit harsh. (Ha, edited this after already getting 13+ upvotes, making it look like people also agree with this edit).
I am a nerd and I support this message
Lyta Gold is an excellent sneerer.
The majority of Rationalists are not ‘nerds’ - if they were nerds they would be able to read properly. The large majority are jocks.
This really doesn’t come off well at all.
This but unironically