I remember being in the atheist online space back in like, 2009-2012 and there was a lot of the anti-SJW stuff then in that space. I mostly stopped going to those spaces because I always saw myself as a feminist and most of my friends at that time were women. So when I realized that they were just being shitty I just stopped listening to them. I replaced the atheist drivel with science education content, which has its own problems, but at least it wasn't blatent misogyny. So, long story short, I didn't get into this pipeline back in 2015, but I found the precursor and almost had issues with it.
SeeingRed
joined 2 years ago
The concept of geeks often felt like it was tied up with aspects of oppression. The concept of simulated ethnicity is an interesting perspective on it. This ties in with the liberal mentality that your "class" is tied up in the aspects of culture that you subscribe to and surround yourself with (e.g. the tv shows you consume and the activities you participate in define your position in the class hierarchy). It's a false front on reality. Geeks are outcasts socially, but they still reify capitalist relations in their perceived superiority to non-geeks. Framing this as simulated ethnicity calls it out as being artificial and an attempt to benefit from the racial stereotypes without taking on the same negatives those stereotypes come with. It shows the desire to gain the perceived benefits of oppression without the actual consequences of oppression.