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> just followed some programmers Well now you know why you're seeing what you're seeing. Are programmers supposed to be some apolitical hyper-rational cohort

• markdog12 8y ago
  I did wait 2 weeks without following anyone, just searched for programming languages and such. But yes, I wondered that as well.
• pluma 8y ago
  I used to be annoyed about how a lot of the programmers I followed on Twitter would tweet about politics and feminism. Then I talked to some people who were on the receiving end of the kind of programmers that don't care about those things, groan when they hear words like "feminism", "intersectionality" or "diversity" and instead believe in "meritocracy" and "rationality". Now I'm one of those programmers who tweet about politics and feminism. Sometimes you need to be confronted with the pain you've been complicit to in order to figure out why the people around you all seem to disagree with you and make such a fuss about stuff you don't care about.
• ArtDev 8y ago
  Programmers tend to be Progressive. So, this makes total sense.