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"anti-intellectualism"!!! LOLOL

As if our caste of mediocre conformists called "professors" who all think the same, speak the same sterile jargon, and push the same failed ideas over and over again, while collecting large checks and churning out subliterate students who know nothing except their feelings are...Intellectuals!

If the first thing you think when confronted by a new idea: is 1) how will this help/hurt my career?; and 2) will my tribe approve of this or will I be in trouble?—you may be many things, but an "intellectual" is not one of them.

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Academia is a dumpster fire and has been since at least the Sokal hoax back in the 90s.

A couple of years ago, James Lindsay, Hellen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian translated chapter 12 of "Mein Kampf" into intersectional feminist language (you know, "straight white cisgender male" stuff) and got it published in an academic journal. They published other hoax papers as well, some almost as egregious.

The next time some bespectacled NPR listener tries to tell you opposition to academia is anti-intellectual, get them to explain that.

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