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

[SwanSwanson]

Nerds don't really gravitate towards being leftist, infact alot of leftists point out how nerdy men are right wing.

As for me, a left winger in the nerd subculture, the reason why I'm a left winger is simple: the existence of onlyfans is a disgrace.

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

Funny you post that. I got a YouTube recommend that says nerds turn alt-right.
Do I have to assume that nerds are just a nice way to call overly literal, socially inept men that cheer for the side different to mine?

 

[Mewtwo_Rain]

No. In fact because of outgroup hate from earlier years, many nerds were not so tolerant to people entering into their domain, or not "normie" friendly. The problem is Hipsters, tourists, newbies wanted validation in "nerd culture" and began adopting this tolerance and acceptance grift, let alone the left subverting much of the culture "Hellow my fellow nerds" type shit. The problem is over time the large mass of "nerds" began influencing "true nerd culture" which by then was a sea of leftism, so now it has a stranghold on much of nerd culture or via peer pressure of friends.

 

[Executive Petrel]

A lot of leftoids/commies and libertarians also a few intellectual alt-right sweater and fedora type of guys is what i experienced.

 

[Lemmingwiser]

Ideologies are ideas and you have to be a bit of an intellectual to be swayed by them. Most people are too dumb (read: smart) to fall for ideologies. They will still fall for charismatic leaders or fearmongering, though.

 

[WitchfyndeGeneral]

Well, the only reason why most nerds are leftist to begin with was because most of them are so nose deep in their comics and vidya that they have no clue about the outside world. The thing is, was before the 1990s, many of them are almost reliant on the tv or newspaper for news and jad adopted the values from those 2 mediums early on since they were reclusive and shut off due to endless bullying.

I really don’t think though that the religious right for this question, had anything to do with the political alignment with the nerds, especially there were many nerds who held libertarian-right beliefs during the 1990s and 2000s. I honestly never meet a “alt-right“ nerd during my time as a gamer in 1992-2014. That boogeyman was made up by the Woke Left in 2014.

Nerds gravitate towards idealism, which is why they're the biggest proponents of the far-left and alt-right.

Literally this. Many of them have been downtrodden for so long that want radical easy solutions for problems that are only short term. Literally every degenerate person I’ve ever seen in my life was a avid gamer at some point of their lives. Troons, socialists, furries, weebs, communists, polchuds, etc.

 

[Solomon Bundy]

There's also the very basic "we want to be the good guys" aspect to it. Much of our (nerd) culture is escapist fantasy.

 

[Trapped Under Rice]

Take it for what you will, but in industry engineers (mega nerd sperglords) have a reputation for being rightists. Ive even seen several opinion pieces on why this is the case and how we can combat people having different worldviews. I think its somewhat true, but they only seem rightwing by juxtaposition to corporate types. They tend to be literal, mechanistic and direct; stuff like: "yes, it would be more socially productive to summarily execute people for x." They also like cars and guns and big loud stuff and just want people to leave them alone - which, apparently is a now a political position.

Edit: I'm talking about EEs, MEs, ChemEs, BEs, AEs. Software "engineers" are well known faggots, and hardware people are completely deranged schizos with five burner phones.

 

[skykiii]

There's also the very basic "we want to be the good guys" aspect to it. Much of our (nerd) culture is escapist fantasy.

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?

 

[Dr. Kinder]

Deep down, they perceive that the Commies appear to be winning. After years of bullying, they want to be on the winning side, and they want to make Chad and Stacy suffer. So they troon out and become Communists. It's a Satanic power-play couched in fake morality that gives the nerdbrain just enough plausible deniability of its own evil.

 

[Mariposa2.0 LTE]

Like Adam22, they're all cucks

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The biggest redpill against the left is the first time you need to pay taxes. When you have a high paying job you worked 7+ years to apply for and realize 40% of your wage it is stolen by sheboons then you would gladly vote for a government to remove welfare.

The issue is that the left spent the last two decades in indoctrination, social and political pressure to make you either feel obligated to support the left or threaten you with blacklisting for outing yourself as one.

I am still convinced that it is easier to be applied to high status jobs in California if you are a sex offender than a right winger.

 

[AgendaPoster]

Its obvious today, with how many comic book fans, anime fans, and video gamers became SJWs, but this trend is even evident throughout history. Fans of comics and science-fiction novels for example (who were the cornerstone of nerddom for most of history) were also among the first to embrace things like gay rights and the like.

Nerds is just a more polite term for outcast. Outcasts and weaklings always pivot towards leftism. I don't even consider it a bad thing, it's natural that weaker organisms try to find a way to take on the stronger ones by banding together.

When you have a high paying job you worked 7+ years to apply for and realize 40% of your wage it is stolen by sheboons then you would gladly vote for a government to remove welfare.

These lolberts thoughts are beyond retardation. Aren't you an Israeli, in a country with a functional welfare state and almost no sheboons?
The problem are not taxes and welfare in itself, because you do want a civilized, functional society even for the lower classes.
The problem is diversity. Within your tribe, it's natural to want everyone to live decent lives. I work in a hospital, it would be disastrous to require payments for emergencies. Do you want poor people that get in an accident to be left to die?
I fucking hate libertarians lmao

 

[The Tall Man]

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

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MODERN LEFTISM

But what is leftism? During the first half of the 20th century leftism could have been practically identified with socialism. Today the movement is fragmented and it is not clear who can properly be called a leftist. When we speak of leftists in this article we have in mind mainly socialists, collectivists, “politically correct” types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like. But not everyone who is associated with one of these movements is a leftist. What we are trying to get at in discussing leftism is not so much movement or an ideology as a psychological type, or rather a collection of related types. Thus, what we mean by “leftism” will emerge more clearly in the course of our discussion of leftist psychology.

The two psychological tendencies that underlie modern leftism we call “feelings of inferiority” and “over socialization”. Feelings of inferiority are characteristic of modern leftism as a whole, while over socialization is characteristic only of a certain segment of modern leftism; but this segment is highly influential.

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.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Does being a nerd mean being smart, or does it mean autistic consumerism with lots of pop culture references?

If it’s the latter, sure, they love leftism

 

[TyrasGuard]

I feel like nerds would gravitate towards whatever political ideology appears first in their anime games

 

[DDR Yoga]

Does being a nerd mean being smart, or does it mean autistic consumerism with lots of pop culture references?

If it’s the latter, sure, they love leftism

Yes, this. What are we calling a nerd?

The intelligent, hyper-analytical, billy no-mates autist type is a natural right winger. Libertarianism appeals because he wants to be left alone. Nazi ideas appeal because they're true. Kaczynski, Ed Dutton, WLP, Tim McVeigh and everyone on 4chan more or less fits this type.

If we're calling a nerd an anime-loving, midwit, 42-year-old AEW fan, then yes, they're leftists.

When I hear 'nerd', I think of the first type; a high IQ, racist porn-addict who can fix your computer. The 2nd type are not nerds in any true sense. They are more interested in the fandom than the thing itself. They just like being part of something that's nice and fluffy where they don't have to grow up. They lack any of the real obsessive behaviour found in type 1.

 

[Fate Fan]

TND

Total Normie death.

Nerds of today usually dont give a shit about politics or fall into the far right as they get upset that outisders are trying to inject shit that dosent fit into their hobbies. but even a large amount of those are the same as left wing ones who just adopted a different side of mainstream culture

 

[FamicomGorby]

Leftists move from community to community like a cancer, introducing their politics and creating an inevitable purity cycle that destroys the community while they move onto the next one. The internet has made this easier and I think the best evidence of this is that nerd communities didn't start becoming completely pozzed until the advent of Tumblr.

 

[The Nothingness]

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.