Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
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Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
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Re: Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
#2Really? "Nerds?" I think the word you're looking for is "experts."
Re: Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
#3I was glad to see him call them out on that. I made a similar comment here on HN about a month ago[1] saying that calling on "nerds", to me, implied a lack of respect. The replies I received, however, seemed to disagree.
Re: Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
#4This is where it's all heading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
Re: Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
#5I was glad to see him call them out on that. I made a similar comment here on HN about a month ago[1] saying that calling on "nerds", to me, implied a lack of respect. The replies I received, however, seemed to disagree. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3358472
I think what you were seeing was that many "nerds" don't see the term as particularly derogatory and even self-describe as such, though I suspect several of the congressmen did mean to be derogatory in their use of it.
Re: Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
#6Fun fact: the SOPA page on Wikipedia was still accessible during the blackout.
Re: Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
#7I was glad to see him call them out on that. I made a similar comment here on HN about a month ago[1] saying that calling on "nerds", to me, implied a lack of respect. The replies I received, however, seemed to disagree. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3358472
I think what you were seeing was that many "nerds" don't see the term as particularly derogatory and even self-describe as such, though I suspect several of the congressmen did mean to be derogatory in their use of it.
It's derogatory because they used it in a way to imply that they didn't particularly want to be associated with the group labeled "nerds." I've always preferred the term "geek." Anyone else feel the same way?
Re: Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
#8On the plus side, all the conspiracy theorists who claimed that Jon Stewart and The Daily Shows were pawns of their parent multinational media conglomerate, and thus wouldn't negatively cover SOPA, these people were wrong.
On the negative side, no one in the news media or whistleblowers and WTF-watchers like Jon Stewart knew what SOPA was until two days ago.
That's even scarier.
Re: Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think what you were seeing was that many "nerds" don't see the term as particularly derogatory and even self-describe as such, though I suspect several of the congressmen did mean to be derogatory in their use of it.
It's derogatory because they used it in a way to imply that they didn't particularly want to be associated with the group labeled "nerds." I've always preferred the term "geek." Anyone else feel the same way?
I was thinking the exact same thing when I was watching it.
Re: Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA
#10I'm glad to see Stewart finally give this issue some coverage. I actually think the more interesting part of this bit was his montage of Daily Show clips using "copyrighted" content. It really underscores the importance of fair use and the grey area that makes copyright violations such a difficult area to police. The nerds bit was funny, but it was just the usual mockery of our elected officials he usually does.