Being "socially conscious" in a strictly political sense does not excuse one from dudebro status (or dudette, as the case may be). Especially when their political stance happens to be so clearly lacking in internal consistency, as in someone worrying about the supposed negatives of "capitalism" but not doing anything to effectively address them, even while working for a stereotypical "tech" business.

I've heard them called soydevs before.

> Is there a good derisive term for them?

I've heard a few, but they don't seem to stick: for a while, Social Justice Warrior was in vogue, and lately, I'm seeing a bunch of variants of woke, which I imagine are spoken italicized to signify vitriol and/or contempt.

Edit: I had forgotten cuck - though that's broader, and would be used as a derisive to all persona non grata not just the nerds.

I think most the original techbros are in management now.

I always assumed the label was derived from the huge influx of people into CS in the late 90's and very early 2000's because of the dot-com boom. I know there were a lot of people at my school at that time that seemed like they would have been in business or finance classes if not for the obscene money they saw thrown around by internet companies when in highschool or before choosing a major.

I mean, that's a valid choice and people are going to choose careers based on money, but if that ends up wildly changing the makeup of the people commonly in that career, you can expect the people that went into it for interest in the work to come up with some salty nicknames for those they see as interlopers.

What exactly is the problem with codes of conduct, critiquing capitalism, chatting on Discord, and using a Mac? Why the derision?

> Then, why are the vast majority of the images of people in Google image search results for "techbro" or "tech bro" white men? Serious question.

For the same reason that an image search for "successful CEO" shows white men. Google's results are both a reflection and amplification of any input biases.

A number of those images are from the TV show Silicon Valley, a show satirizing the industry.

Similar search in Google images also tend to match various stereotype (basketball player, hotel housekeeping, etc). Google will generally reflect what's on the Internet.