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How do you deal with the bigotry in nerd culture?
- Thread starter DragonSJG
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I laugh at the nerds. Call them nerd losers. Make fun of them. Don't hang out with them. Pretty simple, but then again I'm a white male so I'm never their target but it still helps to call them out on it and ostracize them for it.
I try to call it out when given the opportunity and distance myself from people, personalities, or platforms that enable it.
I pretty much don't associate with anyone who's open and public with their bigotry, so at this point it doesn't effect me all that much. If I somehow encounter it in my presence I'll try to call it out, but the opportunities are slim lately.
I just wish I could do the same with people who have an irrational, world-consuming hatred for The Last Jedi.
I just wish I could do the same with people who have an irrational, world-consuming hatred for The Last Jedi.
Pretty much this.
Not that it is on the same level but, I have also become sick of nerd culture gatekeeping, one of the primary reasons I stopped attending conventions like PAX and carious comic cons.
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No point in calling them out over in game chat. I just mute everyone and pay as little attention to text chat as possible, only way I can get through a multiplayer game with out getting pissed off. One of the reasons posting on this forum is as close as I get to associating with nerd/gaming culture.
this right here.
also a mixed POC, i'm so happy to see a thread on this. it's a huge issue in a culture that many people like myself have always loved but can't always feel comfortable in.
Definitely agree with everyone about the importance of calling bigotry out when possible/safe/etc. It does bother me that there is a sizable contingent of bigots who feel like they "own" nerd culture, because it depresses me that things I like are publicly associated with those people. (The fight over TLJ is a great example, I personally feel like the stakes were so high for some people because they correctly realized that straight white male nerd ownership of Star Wars was being challenged).
If anything though, we just need to stick up for non- or anti-bigoted creators of stuff in nerd culture and continue to call out bigots.
I don't engage in it. I don't watch twitch or streamers, and haven't played online with a mic since the Xbox Live Beta.
Something like this, except if i see it in a public forum im active at, i call it out, in fact i have been kicked out of groups for calling out Jon Tron.
But in general? Do not engage with the community, specially in online games.
My rules with online games are:
1.-Mic is STRICTLY for use with IRL friends only
2.-Do not engage the community
3.-Do not reply to vile
4.-Communicate only through in game pings and texting "thx" or "good job".
I call it when I feel like it. Sometimes I ignore it, sometimes I don't. Can't fight every battle
I don't ignore it, I give Trumpers hell every day just about, but when it comes to gaming I'm just never looking or listening to anywhere it is coming out of. For instance I don't know who Jon Tron is.
Call the shitbags out for what they are - worthless fucking losers. How many fucking comic readers get mad about inclusion and the open support and visibility of marginalized groups, and then say the X-Men are their favorite superheroes? Most of these people are media-illiterate morons who can't even grasp the shit they're obsessed with.
Don't fucking take that shit. Don't be nice about it. These little shits wanna act small, then make them feel smaller. I've run out of patience for garbage like this.
Don't fucking take that shit. Don't be nice about it. These little shits wanna act small, then make them feel smaller. I've run out of patience for garbage like this.
Popular youtuber that turned out to be incredibly racist and pro white supremacist, spreading bullshit about "polluting the genepool" and "white countries should be allowed to protect their heritage" and other shit, his market was mostly impressionable young kids.
I see. I almost use youtube exclusively for videos of people falling down
This is the correct answer. And a relatively low bar that too many fail to cross.
I used to try and do the passive thing the non confrontational folks here would suggest. Listen and educate them on how ignorant and un inclusive they were with their bs.
As I got older and realized they don't give a fuck I stopped dealing with problematic ones, and would challenge them by having them speak in circles.
As I got older and realized they don't give a fuck I stopped dealing with problematic ones, and would challenge them by having them speak in circles.
I wish I had more opportunities to call it out than I do, but I think I just mostly run in circles where that isn't a thing.
I basically don't participate in nerd culture, I ain't no freakin nerd
Same but for leftism
IRL, I've mostly stuck with the same people I've known all my life when it comes to playing games, running D&D, etc, so I know them well and we're all on the same page there.
Online, I report whenever possible given the platform in question, and otherwise just don't frequent places where that behavior is tolerated.
Online, I report whenever possible given the platform in question, and otherwise just don't frequent places where that behavior is tolerated.
