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Technical Bigotry

Prejudice that elevates technical expertise and jargon as the only legitimate form of knowledge, dismissing lay knowledge, practical wisdom, and non‑expert perspectives as worthless. Technical bigotry is common in tech communities, corporate management, and academic fields where specialized language is used to gatekeep. It attacks those who cannot speak the technical language, accusing them of ignorance, sentimentality, or obstructionism.
Example: “He dismissed the community’s concerns about a new project because they ‘didn’t understand the engineering’—technical bigotry, using expertise to silence legitimate stakeholders.”

Technical Prejudice

The cognitive bias that assumes that those with technical credentials always know best, and that non‑technical perspectives are inherently less valid. It leads to the exclusion of local knowledge, ethical considerations, and human factors from decision‑making. Technical prejudice is a hallmark of technocracy and is often invisible to those who hold it, as they genuinely believe they are just being “rational.”

Example: “The software developers refused to consult users because ‘they don’t understand the architecture’—technical prejudice, mistaking technical knowledge for wisdom about human needs.”

Technical Violence

Harm caused by imposing technical solutions on human problems without regard for social, cultural, or psychological context. Technical violence includes forced technological adoption (e.g., replacing human services with apps), algorithmic decision‑making that ignores individual circumstances, and the destruction of non‑technical livelihoods in the name of efficiency. It is often invisible because it is done by systems, not individuals.
Example: “The city replaced homeless outreach workers with a hotline app; those without phones were simply left uncounted—technical violence, efficiency as cruelty.”

Technical Alienation

The feeling of being excluded from decisions that affect ones life because one lacks the technical vocabulary to participate. It is the experience of watching experts debate in jargon, of being told “you wouldn’t understand,” and of seeing one’s own concerns translated into technical problems with technical solutions that miss the point. Technical alienation breeds cynicism and powerlessness.

Example: “At the public meeting, the engineers spoke in acronyms and formulas; residents felt like outsiders in their own neighborhood—technical alienation, the exclusion of the non‑expert from democracy.”

im not technical 

an answer given by a computer user when asked to do anything on a computer, mobile, tablet, games console or any other electronic device.

For whatever reason, a person of usually good intelligence looses all sense of logic and understanding.
John: - "Can you click on the start button"
Judy:- "Oh im not technical, let me get someone"

Dave:- "whats it say on your screen"
Bob:- "Oh im not technical, let me get someone"

Frank:- "Please can you click file, open and tell me what files you see"
Bob:- "Oh im not technical, let me get someone"
im not technical by mordzy2 March 31, 2011

Loch Raven Technical Academy 

A middle school located in Towson, Maryland. The majority of the students are black, and more females attend the school than males. It has four magnets, all of which take no talent to get into. Most of the teachers are annoying and fake, though if you don't piss them off they can be super tight with you. There are LITERALLY fights once a week at minimum. If you walk in the hallway while classes are in session, you will most likely see ghetto girls twerking and making music videos on their phones or dumb ass boys talking so incoherently that it is no longer english. Between classes, you'll always get bumped into in the halls by some weirdo doing the Naruto run or have someone try to break your ankles by cutting in front of you. The school has a few cliques: the weirdos who eat grass and pick their noses, the edgy teens who wear black lipstick, the nerds who dress up like furries and draw pictures of anime characters, the cocky boys who think they're cool because they made a good rebound in PE the class before, and the ghetto ass girls who snap at each other and have nails so long they could stab someone with them, and the norms who just wanna get their three years over with and leave. The school has a lot of fucked up flaws, but don't worry. If you're about to or currently attend LRTA, you'll learn how to survive in the school in no time and come out being the most street wise freshman. If you do it right, you'll make friends who will make your years at Loch Raven memorable.
Scenario 1:

Sarah: "OMG THERE WAS A FIGHT AT MY SCHOOL TODAY!"
Sharkisha: "A fight? Pfft, who gives a shit? Those happen all the time at my school girl!"

Sarah: "Oh, you must go to Loch Raven Technical Academy then..."

Scenario 2:

Teacher: "Everyone flip to page 328."
Daquan: "EVERYBODY SAY SAUSAGE KEEP IT GOIN'-"
Teacher: "You're staying here for lunch, mister."

Worcester Technical High School. 

The only school with air conditioning and working faucets in the Worcester Public Schools.
Worcester Technical High School. has A/C you know? They r not sitting in ball soup right now.

Brooklyn Technical High School 

the only school where it is ok to play with swords in the park next to it. A school that will give you so much HW that you will have no time to watch TV. A school with so many asians that you will eventually have Asian Fever. A school where it is not hard to find fake people. A school that can make you feel like SHYT after being the top of you school in middle school. A school for the "Stuy. Rejects". A school where you can make some great freinds that can get you through all the bullshit you deal with in this school and can make it worthwhile.
Little Bobby cried for three days after finding out he was rejected by Stuyvesant but said "Fuck It, I'll Go to Brooklyn Technical High School!" there he Found that he can get so much and HW and can't even watch family guy anymore. But he became friends with Stanely and found that brooklyn tech isnt all bad