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- Apr 23, 2016
If you use some empathy to understand and forgive other people's flaws, they are more willing to forgive yours. But first you have to admit you have them. Geek communities can be incredibly welcoming to outcasts, but nobody wants to hang out with people who are self important assholes to them. That is what drives people like SGG or Nora Reed away from friends, not their ideological views or identity in isolation. STOP BEING ASSHOLES! Start appreciating where other people come from instead of blindly hating them.
Oh, Nora and Jake could absolutely find acceptance and friendship in many geek communities, groups who see themselves as outsiders and are very welcoming and protective of their own. But the rat king has (correctly) identified those groups as very low status and (incorrectly) identified themselves as being far above that. They're meritocrats, dammit. They won't get down in the mud with the peasants, not even for lurve.