[free-sklyarov] Geektivist

[Declan McCullagh]

So you consider yourself a geek and an activist, but you
don't like it when someone calls you a geektivist?  Uhhh... right.

-Declan


On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:12:49PM -0700, Dan Martinez wrote:
> James S. Huggins wrote:
> 
> > Just curious:
> > Is geektivist a common term?
> 
> I hadn't heard it before.
> 
> > Do people on this list consider themselves geektivists?
> 
> I don't. I consider myself an activist. "Geektivist" sounds, to me,
> like a forced attempt to be cute. (Sorry, Declan.)
> 
> > Is it pejoritive or descriptive?
> 
> Possibly both, possibly neither, but either way I don't think it's
> particularly helpful. I consider myself a geek, just as I consider
> myself a hacker, but I might pause before adopting either label while
> trying to influence the opinion of a lay public. (Which is, after all,
> part of what we're trying to do here.)
> 
> I think that the opposition is working hard enough to marginalize us:
> I don't see the point in making it easy for them.
> 
> Dan
> 
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