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> ...our world has a resurgence of anti-intellectual... That's the US, not the world. There has always been an anti-intellectual strain in American culture.
by rendall 2y ago
> ...our world has a resurgence of anti-intellectual...
That's the US, not the world. There has always been an anti-intellectual strain in American culture.
- tbrownaw 2y agoI believe Stalin's purges included intellectuals as a group. Mao's hundred flowers thing was a purge of people who dared think they knew better than him. Or for current popular things, the US is far from alone in seeing the electorate reject the standard academic position on national borders.
- kragen 2y agoPol Pot tried to kill anyone who wore glasses, and Boko Haram are literally named after anti-intellectualism.