Anti intellectualism...

AssHatZombie said:
We will be anti-elitist. We will not accept the lies told to us by elitists like yourself that slavery through globalization, cap and trade, and nationalized healthcare is the best way to go.

We simply beg to differ.
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Well we may beg to differ. That could be because you're delusionally paranoid. Had any good pudding lately? :pke:
 
It's just too easy to shutdown these self-important elitist shitheads.

their arrogance is their undoing. They're so used to only being around each other, regugitating the same puke back and forth, that when confronted with actually good ideas they go stupid.
 
AssHatZombie said:
It's just too easy to shutdown these self-important elitist shitheads.

their arrogance is their undoing. They're so used to only being around each other, regugitating the same puke back and forth, that when confronted with actually good ideas they go stupid.
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I'm assuming this means you haven't had any good pudding lately?
 
Socrtease said:
Anti-Intellectualism comes almost entirely from a small subset of the right. They don't like intellectuals because the more educated you become (and I am speaking in generalities here) the more tolerent of difference you become. Other than the people that Jim Crow was affecting directly, who became the most vocal supporters of civil rights? College students, while blue collar america, from north and south, were still very much "They keep to theirs and we will keep to ours." Same with support of gay rights, college educated people have more contact with homosexuals in an academic environment and see that except for 5% of their lives, they are like everyone else. People with college educations are going to be more likely to believe in evolution, while people with less education are going to be likely to believe in what they were taught in church, because more than likely High School science class didn't cover evolution much more than to say that it is Darwin's theory. So the more open minded a person becomes the less they look like a modern day social conservative. The less they look like a modern day social conservative, the more social conservatives mock higher education. Even within their own ranks, social conservatives are suspicious of people like George Will and William F. Buckley (RIP Bill). That is because, while they have much in common, men and women like Will and Buckley will buck the social conservatives in some way that rubs wrong. Buckley and drugs comes to mind. Will and his faltering support of Bush. Shit lots of conservatives even began to speak ill of Goldwater when Barry took up the support of gays in the military. THere are tons of intellectuals among Conservatives but the more intellectual you become the harder it is to hang on to the social conservative mantra in its entirety (sp).
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Very good post. I agree, the social cons are the more anti intellectual.... the Religous use anti intellectuallism to furhter controll over others, they know the less intellectually curious the more they can use fear of God to controll them.
 
Jarod said:
Very good post. I agree, the social cons are the more anti intellectual.... the Religous use anti intellectuallism to furhter controll over others, they know the less intellectually curious the more they can use fear of God to controll them.
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I actually see more anti-intellectualism on the left. I see more brainwashed people who can't even understand the implications of their own beliefs.

Affirmative Action believers especially. They believe in discrimination against white males, but don't seem to realize it's discrimination, and unconstitutional.
 
AssHatZombie said:
We will be anti-elitist. We will not accept the lies told to us by elitists like yourself that slavery through globalization, cap and trade, and nationalized healthcare is the best way to go.

We simply beg to differ.
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If you are anti-any group that is not defined by pure negativity, you will miss out on the good that group brings, and the individuals who do not fit into your steriotype.
 
AssHatZombie said:
I actually see more anti-intellectualism on the left. I see more brainwashed people who can't even understand the implications of their own beliefs.

Affirmative Action believers especially. They believe in discrimination against white males, but don't seem to realize it's discrimination, and unconstitutional.
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I belive that AA is ultimatly a harmfull thing and that if used for too long of a period will harm society and culture, but that being said, there is a time for every purpose under the sun, and as long as people like GWB get into universities because of who there white fathers are or were then we need AA to slowly make some in-rodes into fixing the problem and destroy the good old boy network.

BTW, I did not learn that at my fancy institute of higher learning.... in East Central Alabama!
 
Jarod said:
If you are anti-any group that is not defined by pure negativity, you will miss out on the good that group brings, and the individuals who do not fit into your steriotype.
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So it's fine to be against groups that are defined by pure negativity?

Can you name one of those?
 
Socrtease said:
Anti-Intellectualism comes almost entirely from a small subset of the right. They don't like intellectuals because the more educated you become (and I am speaking in generalities here) the more tolerent of difference you become. .....
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There is much evidence to support the assertion that hiring of conservative college professors is stifled at most major universities by their overwhelmingly liberal staffs. This blows your theory about tolerance and diversity and by extension, your closed-minded assumption about the right.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I'd also say that's an anti intellectual comment made by the uneducated to give themselves a sense of supperiority over those mysterious edumacated peoples. (and NO, I'm not implying you are uneducated.)

My honest observation is the exact opposite. No one suffers as much from lack of sense as those lacking in education. From making poor decisions about life style choices, diet, exercise, finances, careers, relationships, etc, it has been my experience that an education provides a person with more tools to think critically and thus make sensible decisions then those whom lack education.

Does an education guarentee that one will have sense? Hardly. One still has to think and make good decisions but I'd wager the more a person is educated the better prepared they are in life to do just exactly that.
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I never implied that many uneducated people possess common sense, but since these folks are typically not the policy makers among us, this detriment is largely irrelevant.
 
Southern Man said:
There is much evidence to support the assertion that hiring of conservative college professors is stifled at most major universities by their overwhelmingly liberal staffs. This blows your theory about tolerance and diversity and by extension, your closed-minded assumption about the right.
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Please show me that evidence.
 
I constantly fight the "anti-intellectual" attitude. I feel that I have the "capacity for rational and intelligent thought." I feel that I am "rational." But because I am very religious I am thought of as being "anti-intellectual."

Admittedly this label probably stems from the rejection [by many religious people] of Science over God in the theory of evolution, homosexuality, abortion and such.....and some on the religious side take it to the nth degree causing much animosity between the two groups.
 
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