Do Nerds Naturally Gravitate Towards Leftism? If so, why?

[God of Nothing]

Probably because the creator of the original Star Trek and some of the titans in the comic industry were left-leaning themselves. Now decades later, the narrative is that nerd/geek culture is progressive like those keep parroting the X-Men were created as an allegory the civil rights movement.

the X-Men were made mutants because their creator didn't want to make up an origin for all of them: they were just born that way

 

[OneMillionRPM]

Half the web being hosted in San Francisco probably doesn't help matters either. It just had to be the part of the US most known for being friendly to gays and trannies.

 

[Kill Your Idols]

If we're talking about nerds in general and not the soyjak stereotype, then it's easier to look at nerds from a ressentiment angle rather than a political lens. If someone is called a nerd and does not embrace the label, then they're an outcast from some mainstream culture. If a nerd has a particular chip on their shoulder about this, they're going to look at the mainstream culture that shuns them and focus their political ideology on opposing the people that caused them grief. If they were ostracized by their religious community or school jock culture, they'll likely dye their hair a stupid color, go trans, and "get revenge" by censoring media that traditionalists love. If their frustrations are more from romantic rejection or latching on to unpopular political ideologies, they'll have the opposite reaction and fully dive into the culture war, perpetually whine about their inability to find a romantic partner, and will latch onto strong men in right-wing or libertarian spaces who actually have some influence.

The amount of ideas covered by pop culutre and nerdy areas of interest are too broad to fit one political ideology. What distinguishes nerds is more about if they moved on past their high school hang-ups. The chill nerds will refocus their efforts on their hobbies and develop their own way of thinking. The resentful nerds will define their ideas as the exact opposite of their bullies.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

You got this backwards: it's leftists that adopted nerd hobbies the moment it was marketed to the mass public. Nerds were largely apolitical or disinterested in politics like they were with pretty much everything else. It's why they're nerds to begin with. The type of nerd you're thinking of isn't a nerd at all. It's a retarded normie who took their public education to heart.

If anything, most nerds were moderate prior to the mid 10s. A lot of them were rightist or centrist libertarians.

As for nerds failing to gatekeep moonbats out of their circles, I can think of two reasons:

The five geek social fallacies, especially the first one, the misconception that the underdogs, the downtrodden, are always the good guys, never considering the possibilities that such people were ostracized for a damned good reason.

The other reason, being that the right wing was the ones being thorns in their side during the 80s, 90s, and early 00s, and so they have a hard time adapting when leftists like Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, or the like turned out to be far worse than Jack Thompson, Jack Chick, or other fundie moral guardians ever were. It also helps that the aforementioned rightist moral guardians never had support in the mainstream media, but were openly mocked by pretty much everyone. Whereas the mainstream media didn't hesitate to come to the aid of left wing moral guardians and social justice warriors.

Leftism is a virus, it destroys every subculture that fails to gatekeep it out.

 

[frozen_runner]

This is the thing that bugs me most about social justice and other leftist things which I don't need to list--these people clearly think they're the heroes, even when they're obviously not.

I sometimes like to show them that one bit of Yu-Gi-Oh Bonds Beyond Time abridged where Jaden says exactly that to Paradox:

JADEN: Does that sound like a hero to you?

PARADOX: When you put it that way, not really--

JADEN: Then what the hell, man? What the actual hell?

I agree with you, but you brought up Yu-Gi-Oh: Something Something like it was quotable canon literature, and that deserved a puzzle piece. My apologies.

 

[Lemmingwiser]

The five geek social fallacies, especially the first one, the misconception that the underdogs, the downtrodden, are always the good guys, never considering the possibilities that such people were ostracized for a damned good reason.

in my experience, the downtrodden are the most likely to abuse power if they get some.

 

[Ashkenazi Porn Actress]

If anything, most nerds were moderate prior to the mid 10s. A lot of them were rightist or centrist libertarians.

Even most "leftist" nerds had few problems engaging with material coming from a diametrically opposed angle, if anything they (secretly) enjoyed the transgressiveness of right-wing/reactionary stuff.
What happened is that radicalized discourses which had been relegated to the dark crevices of the university system from the 80s onward that were completely obsessed with holiness spirals and Maoist struggle sessions erupted from American and European elite universities like a overly ripe zit into the subcultures and the mainstream from the late 00s onwards, forming the base of "SJW culture".
To be a GoodPerson you suddenly had to uncritically believe every CurrentYearThing and also shun everything not made by people believing the same.
Now the question for many was: Become a commissar? Or end up in the metaphorical Gulag? And a fuckload of people took the first option to retain whatever social clout they had.
In the end leftist in-group preference > nerd in-group preference.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Borzoi Boskowitz (from TRS) is proof of Nerds being attracted to the Right.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

More like liberal-minded people are drawn towards technology because they aren't backwater hicks. Too bad they're now overrun by trend-chasing normalfags. There's a reason why Google's motto used to be "don't be evil", and it was because they realized the dangers of their unchecked corporate and technological monopoly, something that would never have occurred if right-wingers were the ones who led the IT boom.

 

[Eydallur]

I went to a model train show recently. Seeing the various people there obsessing about their trains and observing that the majority of the children in attendance were disabled I came to realize that what I was witnessing that day was also true of the dweebs who post about city planning and public transit despite having no career in either field — that they gravitate towards these things because they are incapable of leading independent lives and so their fantasies revolve around an idealized vision of their current circumstance, not one where they exercise agency.

 

[Spob]

I dunno, I've seen a whole lot of autists gravitating towards evangelical Christianity and terminally online conservative sperging.

I kinda feel like a lot of them might turn to church and Jesus out of having exhausted all other options and failing in life.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Those said nerds probably have some REALLY dark stuff in the closet that they don't want to come out, i.e. their 500PB stashes of cheese pizza, and thus resort to Leftism to try to save their hides. They also have to work hard to stay in line, so that they don't get outed for not being useful anymore.

 

[ChampFantana]

Yes they do.

Physical, mental, and spiritual weakness leads to collectivist politics.

 

[BlaireWhitesBottom2]

in my experience, the downtrodden are the most likely to abuse power if they get some.

they dont want a ban on sodomy, they just want to be top!

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Yes they do.

Physical, mental, and spiritual weakness leads to collectivist politics.

But nerds are supposed to be smart and therefore mentally strong, doe.

 

[Flamin Park]

I'm a nerd and I gravitate towards absurdism, and politics is fucking retarded
People who make politics part of their identity are atleast grade b lolcows, tending higher

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

I can't say the landscape I remember is the same back then but my experience was a lot of nerds were like Null. Social outcasts, generally uninterested in the mainstream, hermit sort but most of all, they really really really don't like to stir the pot, there also wasn't a lot of ideology like there is today; ever since Trump's election it went from identifying folks as libertarian, liberal, leftist, republican, conservative and anarchist, socially conservative economically liberal, etc. with many overlaps across the various ideologies. Now, basically politics is a living strawman argument, a black and white fallacy that leaves me in the dark. Look at the gent from No Man's Sky, that's a nerd I'm familiar with. Shy, doesn't like to be the center of anything that isn't sitting and coding the flap animation for a bird's wing. It is really wierd starting to notice the way culture has changed since I was born and can remember.

 

[Rural Bingo]

What about larger institutions in academia (universities, colleges, etc.) that as a result of the social sciences are now having to "adapt or die" to a regressive stance? Even if they're in STEM, the institution encourages leftist ideas and when that doesn't work, puts a vice grip by making it verboten to do anything other than extol the magnificent virtues of the Left. Even remaining neutral can be seen as a disagreement.

Think of it as starting at one part of a university (social science, gender studies, wherever) and eventually spreading to the other parts via administrative lock-down. Then anyone within reach has to remain quiet or risk wearing a scarlet letter. How can nerds in those situations keep their mind while trying to be true to themselves?

 

[Ser Prize]

Excerpts from "Industrial Society And Its Future" by Ted Kaczynski


You should read at least the first pages of it that talk about the psychology of leftism.

My blunt way of expressing it is that they take pleasure in vulnerability and uphold an inverted hierarchy where weakness is considered the highest moral value.

Ted nailed it. They worship weakness and victimhood. Everything is a competition to see who is the most aggrieved and put upon. It's weaponized pity.

It's also very jewish.

 

[Safir]

It's degeneracy. Western pop culture nerds have always been overwhelmingly "leftist" (as in traitors), because they see social order as an obstacle. Lolbertarianism is popular for the same reason.

You got this backwards: it's leftists that adopted nerd hobbies the moment it was marketed to the mass public.

Pre-internet nerds were also degenerates and "leftists". I'm not an expert on US history but look up information on the state of "sci-fi and fantasy" fandom. Off the top of my head: Marion Zimmer Bradley and her husband raped children (she also wrote fag and dyke porn). Piers Anthony is a pedo. Ursula "Le Guin" Kroeber (German!) was a nigger-loving "feminist" (of the "women are weak and it's good eckshually" variety). Leslie Fish (pro 2A, otherwise degenerate anarchist) wrote some of the first fag fanfiction -- there was an audience for fag fanfiction! Ed Greenwood is the legendary piss wizard who, as GM at TTRPG conventions, got off sexually molesting [then overwhelmingly male] players' characters. Sci-fi wasn't better, magazines were printing short stories like "two astronauts crash-landed, and one of them bimboified and trooned out the other".