> xenophobic scapegoating of a group of socially awkward outsiders I don't read Valleywag otherwise, but recently I followed a link to an article in which Sam

> xenophobic scapegoating of a group of socially awkward outsiders I don't read Valleywag otherwise, but recently I followed a link to an article in which Sam Biddle ironically asks readers to call SV software engineers "Software Americans". The goal of the article was to hint that comparing their hatred of "techies" to xenophobia was absurd — the whole if you have privilege you can't be a victim of prejudice etc. * * * Because I wasn't giving them ad impressions (NoScript), I took the liberty to skim some of their other articles. I noticed that they really love to pick on the social awkwardness of the techies. Many implicit or explicit references to autism and Asperger's, suggested as the explanation for what they perceive to be the cultural insensitivity of tech workers.