Lots of people seem to be cross at a few of his incidental points (the article is not saying that social class is the root of all bullying) so I'll just emphasi

Lots of people seem to be cross at a few of his incidental points (the article is not saying that social class is the root of all bullying) so I'll just emphasise the conclusion: The problem is that this can lead you to a place where suffering, or persecution, only matters when, or because, the victim is special. This, in turn, can make it hard to see the ways in which violence is not special, but routine — and if you can't understand the violence directed against you, how can you stop it? The point he's making is that anti-nerd violence is not unique, but part of the wider culture of violence for all sorts of reasons (and in all sorts of directions - up and down the social 'ladders'). I encourage you to read the disqus comments on the article itself, where the author responds to many of the objections raised here.