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Rural Identity as a Contributing Factor to Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.
- anovikov 2y ago[flagged]
- xenospn 2y agoYour comment is redundant. Rural folk don’t usually meet “outsiders”, and their circle of contacts usually revolves around people who fix tractors. A “liberal coastal elite” meets all kinds of people, and has a better understanding of nuance and “actual people”, even if they appear to be an “influential intellectual”.
- FrankWilhoit 2y agoHofstadter plus data -- plus a cautious affect, which minimizes the problem, which is quite a serious one.
- MillironX 2y ago> Further, and once again, rural residency does not significantly predict anti-intellectualism So this is a perception thing. The guy living in Times Square who views himself as as a "farmer type" is less likely to be "intellectual." This strikes me as society on-the-whole embracing the idea of the country bumpkin than anything else.
- krapp 2y agoI think it's more of an identity politics thing, and the elephant in the room (pun intended) is the degree to which one political party uses both rural identity and anti-intellectualism as a form of populist virtue signaling, and pushes the narrative of an intractible "cold civil war" brewing between "city dwellers" and "rural folk." In reality of course culture is by and large manufactured by corporations and normalized by social media, such that anti-intellectualism and "rural identity" depend far more on the bubbles of hyperreality one inhabits than one's physical location, wealth or educational level.
- bediger4000 2y agoI thought we broadly considered identity politics a very bad thing, worth suppressing in the court of public opinion. Yet here we have "rural identity" identified as a definite thing. What's up with that?
- krapp 2y agoPeople tend to consider outsider identity politics a bad thing, not their own.
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