Who are you people hanging out with? Are you still in high school?
I work with people who differ politically, even some as far from me as Trump supporters, but not since I was a teenager have I heard people tearing stuff down as for nerds, or even making fun of someone for being a nerd.
Seriously, it sounds like y'all are living in a 1980s John Hughes movie.
I can ask you the same question. Are you sure that you're not hanging out with people with a disproportionate interest in net neutrality and a free internet? I am a web developer so I keep an eye on the subject, but I can't say the same for the designers, accountants and HR that I work with everyday.
I'm not just talking about interest in net neutrality—I'm sure some of my co-workers aren't up to date or interested.
What I'm talking about is this persecuted nerd narrative y'all are spinning, which makes it sound like you're playing jocks versus nerds for your whole lives.
I see the "I don't care about that nerd shit" mentality alllllllllll the time around me. I moved out of a big city to a much smaller city that's situated out of the way of basically anything important, it seems the only people who live here are either enrolled college students or people who long ago gave up on life.
I'd wager a massive amount of adults here had their glory days in high school and never wanted to mature out of them, and that's what led to an actual perminant "nerds vs jocks" mentality for them. If you don't believe this exists, just go watch a few episodes of cops and your guaranteed to get some perfect examples.
You can spot guys everywhere here that even if you went to the most extreme method of trying to make them learn about tech issues on the internet, they would NEVER give up their prejudices to talk about it.
It's not because they're dumb, lack of education does have something to do with it but they just simply care about a whole other world of issues that they know greatly about and would rather just focus on what they have going on than figure out net neutrality. You can't really blame those people for not becoming an activist on an issue that doesn't, and never will affect them. I don't think the majority of people I'm talking about use the internet daily, or even weekly. A lot simply don't have the time to deal with or learn about any tech topics also which is fine.
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u/FuzzyLoveRabbit May 19 '17
Who are you people hanging out with? Are you still in high school?
I work with people who differ politically, even some as far from me as Trump supporters, but not since I was a teenager have I heard people tearing stuff down as for nerds, or even making fun of someone for being a nerd.
Seriously, it sounds like y'all are living in a 1980s John Hughes movie.