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New Social Justice Push is to Make ‘Nerd’ and ‘Geek’ Hate Speech Punishable by Law

A female academic for Britain is calling on the state to classify “nerd” and “geek” as hate speech punishable by law, according to a report in The Telegraph.

Psychology lecturer and psychotherapist Dr. Sonja Falck is leading this push after studying the impacts of bullying on children with high IQs. She believes that the terms are “divisive and humiliating” and discrimination against the intelligent is the “last taboo” that must be tackled by government action. She is calling for Britain to classify “nerd” and “geek” alongside homophobic, religious, and racial slurs as illegal free speech.

During her eight years of research on high IQ individuals, she found that these terms really hurt her subjects’ feelings and made […]

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