[abandonliberty]

Nerd blackface with a stereotypical understanding of nerds.

It's usually a disaster when writers try to create characters smarter than themselves. You get word soup based on how the writer imagines smart people communicate, filled with weakly used jargon and unnecessarily long words.

My coworkers still accuse me of using complex language even though I have worked to simplify and clarify my communication.

[JDLongley]

It blows my mind that in an article about income inequality, someone who I’m perceiving as a white affluent male can paint themselves as the underdog and then cheerfully refer to The Big Bang Theory as “nerd black face”. Seriously?

[mcguire]

Well, the two aren't necessarily incompatible.

Although, strategically, we should be supporting the "nerd black face" image.

[Redoubts]

> someone who I’m perceiving as a white affluent male

Of course you are.