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I sincerely hope you're joking, at least among programmers!

You're right about national identity, though, a concept I would happily burn if it were possible. Worldview[1] is a terrible thing.

[1] http://www.skepticalscience.com/Debunking-Handbook-now-freel...

>>tehwal+(OP)
Those three were all pretty much direct quotes. I don't know if programming would make someone particularly immune to this kind of reasoning though, in my experience it is to do with how much attachment someone has to the trappings of group identity, which can be quite disconnected from how they reason about other subjects.

>>tehwal+(OP)
Being a programmer has little to do with anything. You can be a good programmer and believe in race superiority, one doesn't exclude the other.

Even in subjects like social insurance you'll find an abyss among Europeans and US. I believe it has to do with how we grew up.

>>atmosx+ja1
I like to think that programmers are better than most at seeing the assumptions behind ideas, and testing them where possible (or taking the ideas less seriously if not.)

Maybe it's rarer than I thought to apply this to ones own social ideas, though. Shame.

>>tehwal+7h1
I like to think that programmers are better than most at seeing the assumptions behind ideas, and testing them where possible (or taking the ideas less seriously if not.)

Did you go out of your way to test the assumptions behind this idea before taking it seriously?