• gowan@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Anti intellectualism has traditionally been a problem across the board. Until COVID the most likely cohort to avoid vaccinating kids in the US were college educated white mothers. I have met a ton of leftists who think economics is bullshit. I know people who think all social science is bullshit.

    Anti-intellectualism is an American trait.

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      1 year ago

      Anti-intellectualism is an American trait

      But tbf, it’s not uniquely American *rubs temples while staring at own country*

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      1 year ago

      True. I think we’re fortunate in that anti intellectualism (and just plain old stupidity) is less common on the left, and tends to be more harmless when it is there.

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        I’m left but the tankies are idiots and their ideology requires sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending history didn’t happen. Though lemmy is the first time I encountered large numbers of such folk.