do you believe STEM science bro to be a real thing
I don't have to believe it. I've experienced and lived it for decades both in college and outside of it in the internet world among people that didn't just have STEM career tracks but also turned that identity into a sense of unexamined superiority over other people.
I am concerned if people think or there really are "STEM science broos" out there.
They exist and live around a lot of them. They thought Andrew Yang had great ideas because he had "MATH" on his hat and seriously believe Elon Musk is on track to personally save the world.
Don't know your experience, but that is exactly why we have business school where I am from. To have a place to put those people. In all seriousness, the people I have met in my time studying math for many years now are really great progressive people, the stark opposite to what you have described. I am talking about every single one I have met that kept going past the first year.
Most of the worst "I fucking love science" spouting STEMbro types I knew tended to be the TE part of it, and often had outright hostility toward "soft" sciences (including biology for some reason) and "too theoretical and not useful" maths. To summarize, if it wasn't in high demand in the capitalistic status quo and wasn't directly focused on gathering resources or producing a product, they mocked it.
Some of those exist, and there is a meme about who shits on who in science community going something like this: math > physics > engineering, which is somewhat true. Again, what you are talking about sounds to me like a business school in STEM suit rather than a university focused on basic research.
I don't have to believe it. I've experienced and lived it for decades both in college and outside of it in the internet world among people that didn't just have STEM career tracks but also turned that identity into a sense of unexamined superiority over other people.
They exist and live around a lot of them. They thought Andrew Yang had great ideas because he had "MATH" on his hat and seriously believe Elon Musk is on track to personally save the world.
Don't know your experience, but that is exactly why we have business school where I am from. To have a place to put those people. In all seriousness, the people I have met in my time studying math for many years now are really great progressive people, the stark opposite to what you have described. I am talking about every single one I have met that kept going past the first year.
Most of the worst "I fucking love science" spouting STEMbro types I knew tended to be the TE part of it, and often had outright hostility toward "soft" sciences (including biology for some reason) and "too theoretical and not useful" maths. To summarize, if it wasn't in high demand in the capitalistic status quo and wasn't directly focused on gathering resources or producing a product, they mocked it.
Some of those exist, and there is a meme about who shits on who in science community going something like this: math > physics > engineering, which is somewhat true. Again, what you are talking about sounds to me like a business school in STEM suit rather than a university focused on basic research.
The people I roomed and went to class with were firmly in the TE categories but did move on to Silicon Valley startups after graduating.