Comments on: Oh No Greg Egan No! http://cloggie.org/wissewords2/2009/03/09/oh-no-greg-egan-no/ Ceci N'est pas Un Blog Mon, 21 May 2012 17:26:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mwisse http://cloggie.org/wissewords2/2009/03/09/oh-no-greg-egan-no/#comment-5 mwisse Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:50:07 +0000 http://cloggie.org/wissewords2/?p=27#comment-5 Sorry to hear that happened to you, Mario. I know very well this happens and never said nerds/geeks aren't often bullied, but a lot of us aren't either. To compare nerdbashing or geek bullying, no matter how horrifying this is for individual people, which again I'm not denying can be very bad with racism however is just wrong. Keeping this in an US perspective, there hasn't been widespread slavery of geeks, nerds denied the vote, nor was a massive civil rights campaign needed to give geeks the same rights as other people. Bullying is a real problem, but it does nobody any favours to exagerrate the way Greg Egan did originally. Sorry to hear that happened to you, Mario. I know very well this happens and never said nerds/geeks aren’t often bullied, but a lot of us aren’t either. To compare nerdbashing or geek bullying, no matter how horrifying this is for individual people, which again I’m not denying can be very bad with racism however is just wrong. Keeping this in an US perspective, there hasn’t been widespread slavery of geeks, nerds denied the vote, nor was a massive civil rights campaign needed to give geeks the same rights as other people.

Bullying is a real problem, but it does nobody any favours to exagerrate the way Greg Egan did originally.

]]> By: Mario http://cloggie.org/wissewords2/2009/03/09/oh-no-greg-egan-no/#comment-4 Mario Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:30:57 +0000 http://cloggie.org/wissewords2/?p=27#comment-4 As a "nerd", or "geek", who required psychotherapy and drugs after years of bulling, go fuck yourself sidewise. As a “nerd”, or “geek”, who required psychotherapy and drugs after years of bulling, go fuck yourself sidewise.

]]> By: Jason M. Robertson http://cloggie.org/wissewords2/2009/03/09/oh-no-greg-egan-no/#comment-3 Jason M. Robertson Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:49:21 +0000 http://cloggie.org/wissewords2/?p=27#comment-3 It was awkward indeed, but he clearly seems to have grasped that when called on it, and the present version of the essay corrected. I kind of wish he'd changelogged that edit, but I guess we can't have everything. It was awkward indeed, but he clearly seems to have grasped that when called on it, and the present version of the essay corrected. I kind of wish he’d changelogged that edit, but I guess we can’t have everything.

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