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John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture
An anonymous reader writes "Famous writer and minor television personality John Hodgman posits the end of the culture of Jockdom in favor of a cultural reverence for engineers, scientists and Slashdot readers: 'Jockdom is very noble. It's not deliberative. It's certainly the best way to win wars. It's the best way to motivate teams of people to fulfill a goal — not just war, but getting things done. The most important way to motivate a factory floor. But as you know, we're not as much of a manufacturing society as we were before. China and other big industrial nations are rewarding their nerds and technicians rather than creating a culture that makes fun of them — it would be wise for us to embrace the book-smart as much as our culture has traditionally embraced the street-smart, the jock-smart. I'm not saying nerds must have their revenge; I'm just saying the time for wedgies is at an end.'"
Wow, you managed to make fun of France without using the word 'surrender'. I humbly bow to you!
Oh, and "big jewy loser"? Really?
Yep! If you've got a functioning Jewdar you might have noticed that lots of nerds in movies look Jewish (and often enough are played by Jewish actors). I really don't know why, maybe people equate Jews with nerds? Seriously, it's a real trend, and I'm no sure why it is so.
And yes, that's exactly it, "rooting for the underdog". We're talking about the same phenomenon here, the difference is that I explained why you root for the underdog. And I know you were joking but in France we're just maybe not as much into that whole David vs Goliath thing, and even if we go for that our David is never as "nerdy" or jewy.
You just got troll'd!
I'm telling you man, you find a disproportionate amount of Jews in nerdy loser type of roles. You can verify that if you don't believe me. As for an explanation, well I wish I had one. I just think/presume that people associate Jews with nerds, as they do with East Asians.
"Jewy" sounds pretty damned pejorative to me, and while you're welcome to talk about people that way if you want you can't really expect not to be called on it.
Not really, I'm immune to that, I'm part Jewish.
You just got troll'd!