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Growing up I would have said the Democrats were the anti intellectuals.
Now I'd easily state the Republicans are...William F. Buckley is dead...and I've heard leading media voices on the right condemn intellectuals (I think it was Sean Hannity).
Anyone who worships ideology at the expense of critical thinking and learning...is an anti intellectual.
The issue I have with that is so many of the extreme left "intellectuals" are only intellectual in as much as they are able to put together grandiose words to make themselves seem significantly more well-informed than they are. The reality is, most of them are just fatuous blowhards who like the smell of their own farts and rely on their own pompousness to serve as a veil concealing their complete inability to think independently. That's not intellectual, at all.
I don't care how many fancy mansion dinner parties they go to in San Francisco where they blather on endlessly about how it's so nice to be in a city full of forward-thinking intellectuals as opposed to knuckle-dragging conservatives (all while consciously ignoring the sad state their city is in), they're just as woefully ignorant as the guy living in a trailer that has 23 kids.
Oh, yes, all intellectuals are Fabians. That's not a stretch by any means.
By your own admission, the right wing is anti-intellectual. The opposite of intelligent is ignorance.
Actually, the opposite of intelligence is stupidity. The opposite of ignorant would be knowledgeable. Ignorant does not mean stupid, ignorant merely means uninformed.
What does "can't figure his way out of a wet paper bag" even mean?
I suppose that we should save judgment of who is and isn't an intellectual for a poster who uses eloquent phrasing such as "runnin his yap"?
I made a typo 'I are' should have been 'they are' and i changed it.
Not figuring your way out of a wet paper bag is a saying..... meaning inept.
lets just say you are stranded on a desert island with a lot of fish and a left wing liberal who runs his yap tellin' you he is a elitist intellectual, but he can't make fire, so you are forced to eat raw fish, which you hate.
or me, and i don't say much because in real life I don't, but I do here silently i might add and i can start fire every time with 2 sticks.
Who is the intellectual then?
Why I have so many ancient woodland skills I could even teach you to pissup a tree!
Actually, the opposite of intelligence is stupidity. The opposite of ignorant would be knowledgeable. Ignorant does not mean stupid, ignorant merely means uninformed.
Just a tip, oh mighty intellectual wonder.
Funny, I don't recall labeling myself an intellectual. In any case, even if I had, I would have the ability to ascertain between a semantic slip and a lack of intelligence. Moreover, I don't need to be an intellectual to understand that having fewer intelligent people around is better than being surrounded by ignoramuses. Ironically, your little drive-by stick to the ribs is precisely the type of ridiculousness that you rail against in your diatribe about San Francisco and farting.
Some intellectuals are self-serving weasels, so if they think they can benefit from a stupid system, they will often serve as its apologists. Witness Paul Ryan. Smart guy. Complete prostitute.
How about supporters of our head apologist, Barack Obama? Do they really believe that the Muslims will lop off their heads last when they take over? Oh my golly, gee, I forgot that you just may be one of those guys.
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
Republicans specifically are anti-intellectual. Democrats do pander to the dummies too but for conservatives, its a shameful thing to be well read and articulate, people think you're a rabble rousing homosexual if you sound intelligent and talk about stuff other than sports. Try being an intellectual in any conservative rural area, people will generally hate and avoid you no matter how nice you are. You have to pretend you're stupider than you are to get along.
Anyone who readsThe New Republic would do well to keep it to himself. That left leaning rag is too close to The Nation, for me.
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