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[–] [email protected] 154 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Saw a critic call it, “Nerd blackface”

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago

IT crowd is about nerds for nerds. Big Bang theory is about nerds for non nerds. "Nerd blackface" is more succinct though.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Blackface is a bit more complicated and disturbing than “pretending to be like a black person for comic effect.” I don’t think it’s appropriate to compare it to to depictions of nerd culture.

It’s what stupid people think smart people sound like. I’ve never been able to watch it, but I remember hearing Sheldon brag about Ubuntu being his favorite Linux distribution? Like, can you imagine someone saying that in a room of Linux nerds?

It’s stupid and disrespectful to geeky people, but it’s not perpetuating harmful and violent narratives.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

brag about Ubuntu being his favorite Linux distribution we? Like, can you imagine someone saying that in a room of Linux nerds?

H-hey!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the comment was also made by Sheldon? Sheldon’s character should be the kind of person who chews people out on forums for not reading the Arch Linux wiki, or to launch into the “GNU/Linux” copy pasta reflexively when Linux is brought up.

[–] Jakeroxs 4 points 2 weeks ago

But that would require them to have more then a surface level understanding of the culture they're making fun of lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

can you imagine someone saying that in a room of Linux nerds?

Ironically, that would be hilarious.

[–] lastunusedusername2 8 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Omfg, that describes it adequately.