A British psychotherapist stirred up a social media squabble Thursday when she suggested on national TV that calling someone a “nerd” or “geek” should be considered a hate crime.


Note: It is only a hate crime when a Neanderthal, Reich-winger, AKA a Nazi (Nationalsozialismus) the National Socialist German Workers Party)) calls a leftists something they don't like. It is never a hate crime when a leftists calls a Neanderthal (Reich-winger) something.

Dr. Sonja Falck, also a psychology lecturer at the University of East London, appeared on “Good Morning Britain” alongside Bobby Seagull, a mathematician, teacher and writer who describes himself as a “proud geek.”

Dr. Falck sincerely suggested classifying the use of words and phrases such as “nerd,” “geek,” “brainiac” “know-it-all,” “dweeb,” “brain box,” “smart***,” or “egghead” to make fun of someone as a hate crime under U.K. hate-speech legislation.


“If you look at those legislation's that relate to hate crimes, hate crime is simply about somebody being targeted in a negative way for who they are,” she said. “And a person with a very high IQ who comes across in a different way often is targeted in that way.”

Although Thursday's interview certainly generated the most buzz for Falck, it was far from the first time she'd made these claims. In fact, her comments were based on eight years of studying discrimination against high-IQ people, during which she said she discovered that words like these, where “the person is being set apart as being different to others,” had left every high-IQ person whom she'd interviewed “feeling like they're a misfit and they don't belong” at least at some point in their lives. She even detailed her findings in a book, titled Extreme Intelligence, which came out in September. (Falck herself is a member of the high-IQ society, Mensa.)




We must now rename the movie Revenge of the Nerds to a more politically correct title.

As someone who studied under the great Dr. Robert Stadler at the State Science Institute, I find this offensive.

This poster didn't age well...

Nerd and geek are out; Nazi and fascist are in. Got it.

All speech is hate speech. The little people need not concern themselves with speaking. The party will speak for them. The rabble should only nod and repeat the slogans!

Minitrue wrote:All speech is hate speech. The little people need not concern themselves with speaking. The party will speak for them. The rabble should only nod and repeat the slogans!

THIS.

Red Square wrote:

Minitrue wrote:All speech is hate speech. The little people need not concern themselves with speaking. The party will speak for them. [highlight=#ffff99]The rabble should only nod and repeat the slogans![/highlight]

[highlight=#ffff99]THIS.[/highlight]

16 More Years! 16 More Years! 16 More Years!

'pelipsky is just letting inner rabble comrade repeat slogan.

When nerds are outlawed only outlaws will be nerds.