Seriously, you want to talk about the "gentrification" of nerddom? Fine, but then you should be prepared be brutally honest and reflective about your own "ethnicity".
That very long and tedious piece seems to confuse geekdom with the portrayal of geeks in pop culture. The point of the Status 451 piece seems to be exactly to draw attention to that confusion: that geek culture is not just a flavor or identity to appropriate for cool points once it gains social cachet, but a real sub culture which has been purring along just fine for decades, which entryism necessarily displaces.
Your usage of "ethnicity" is rather bizarre though. Nowhere does OP use that frame, and you really must have SocJus tinted glasses on if your brain equates social class with race.
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Seriously, you want to talk about the "gentrification" of nerddom? Fine, but then you should be prepared be brutally honest and reflective about your own "ethnicity".
Your usage of "ethnicity" is rather bizarre though. Nowhere does OP use that frame, and you really must have SocJus tinted glasses on if your brain equates social class with race.