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

[max b]

This is not a sudoroom event. There may be plenty of people who have
opinions about this - I suggest you seek them out and not stir shit up here.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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