'Revenge of the Nerds': Vivek Ramaswamy mocked online amid treatise on American culture
Raw StoryEntrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, a close Donald Trump ally tasked with helping to dismantle the federal government, is facing scorn from both sides of the aisle for saying America has a culture problem — it focuses on prom queens and sports over math and science — and that's why tech companies hire more people from India and China. "Denigrating mediocre white men who peaked in high school shows the kind of dead-on political instincts that have made Vivek Ramaswamy so beloved in MAGA circles," editor and songwriter Jack Feerick posted on Bluesky. Bloomberg podcast host Joe Weisenthal summed it up as Ramaswamy saying, "degeneracy of American culture, which prizes jocks over nerds, and Stefan over Urkel in Saved By The Bell." Georgetown University researcher Marguerite Roza, who wrote the book "Educational Economics," found that one high school football player costs $1,300 each year.
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