[sudo-discuss] Does this strike you as anti-intellectualism

[Sonja Trauss]

It doesn't imply that at all. That's actually the question I'm asking -
what am I supposed to make of this generalized hostility to "google
employees" as if they are a clearly separated social world from the Omni et
all, and not one area of the web of overlapping tech/ engineering/ hacking
social worlds? "tech" is a big world stretching from Noisebridge and sudo
room to the university CS departments. People work for themselves and for
companies, start ups get swallowed up by bigger start ups ... I do not
think it is a mere coincidence that the metro area that contains the
country's biggest tech companies also contains the most hackerspaces. It
looks like it's all part of the same phenomenon.



On Tuesday, June 16, 2015, yar <yardenack at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:51 AM, <sonja.trauss at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Besides bumming me out because its hostile, it also scares me a little.
> You guys know some of these people better, what is going on?
> >
> > Eric Fischer (@enf)
> > 6/16/15, 9:08 AM
> > The redacted words are "autistic sociopath." Sounds like general
> backlash, not entirely gentrification or buses? pic.twitter.com/eoIECW9Bp4
>
> We hosted their event. One Omni person was bottom lining it, but
> didn't read the full poster before approving. Another Omni person saw
> the posters and do-o-cratically crossed out the word "autistic". Then
> we asked the organizers to correct all their flyers, which they
> apparently did.
>
> Our community has no love for Google, gentrification, OR for ableism.
> We are sorry to have our name associated with any of those things.
>
> "Anti-intellectualism" is just a cheap shot which portrays tech
> workers as intellectual and everyone else as stupid. This is an
> economic issue. You should know better.
>
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