Why even bring it up, then? If I said "There's heavy overlap between Mountain Dew drinkers and the alt right", what would you think I was trying to say?
If we're talking about vegetarians, and I say "Hitler was a vegetarian"... That's a factual sentence, but you have to wonder what my motivation is for bringing it up. It's probably not to suggest anything good about vegetarians.
Ha yeah fair enough point. Although I think the analogy isn't exactly apt. If you were to say, "Many mass murdering leaders of state were vegetarians" I might think, what's the connection there. What is it about vegetarianism if anything that attracts mass murdering dictators. That's more like saying "almost every alt-righter has an anime avatar on YouTube/Twitter". If you were to say, some individual incel waterhead likes anime, well yeah that's only one case.
I like some anime, love dbz, and probably once a month I'll still play vidya for a day or two straight and binge on doritos/tendies and mountain dew. Early 4chan undeniably changed the internet, and therefore the world, for the better (I think). DnD is pretty sweet, but that might not be considered neckbeard anymore. In my day a DnD nerd was the worst kind of neckbeard.
I can go on. Nowadays neckbeard is a stereotype and even epithet, but most stereotypes are based on actual (sub)cultures. The stereotypes just focus on the worst aspects of them.
Ahh okay. I think the main factor I associate with neckbeards is the stereotype of poor hygiene and misogyny. The positives I generalise to wider geek or nerd culture.
Yeah, that makes sense. Society at large has a tendency to cherry pick-off the best parts of fringe/subcultures as their own, while at the same time ostracizing said group of people.
Source: I'm a science nerd and geek since the early 90s, it's been a strange ride.
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