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>anti-intellectualism
I often wonder what exactly the charge of anti-intellectualism refers to. I have been called anti-intellectual for saying that dockworkers should make more than English lit profs, and that colleges shouldn't have the right to force a liberal arts curriculum on people who want an engineering degree. Is that anti-intellectual? How would you define anti-intellectualism? To avoid the anti-intellectual label, do I have to eagerly defend every privilege and perogative that self-identifying intellectuals claim they deserve?
My short list of things I like about america that aren't likely to be included in other lists:
1-free refills 2-populism