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11 Mar 2016, 12:32 pm

I don't think the US hates intelligence.


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11 Mar 2016, 12:46 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:
That's not what bigotry is...that is just describing types of people, who as far as I know exist and aren't mythological creatures.

Bigotry is a complete intolerance to beliefs, ideas and opinions that differ from ones own and the people that hold them.


Prejudice would be what I mean.

Whether you're a redneck (rural dweller) or a CEO, people can have preconceived notions about you simply because of their own innate biases and bigotry.

Both sides get hate.



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11 Mar 2016, 1:19 pm

ProfessorJohn wrote:
I was at a therapy session today where I was complaining to my therapist how the one thing I am good at is hated in the US. If you use your intelligence to make a lot of money, like becoming a CEO, everything seems to think that you should be punished, and that you made money unfairly, etc. However, no one seems to be bothered by actors/actresses/musicians/athletes making a lot of money off of their talent, and politicians aren't saying that they aren't paying their fair share and that they need to have it taken away from them.

So why is intelligence bad but these other talents ok?


This is what you're saying: Americans do A, and A is a symptom of B, therefore Americans are B.

Americans dont even do A in the first place. And B doesnt have much to do with A. So your post doesnt make much sense..

Anger at income distribution has nothing to do with "hating intelligence".
Americans are less resentful of rich CEO's than are folks in most industrialized countries. And the few that do arent not doing it because they are "anti high IQ".

There are quarters of American society that hate book learning. So "hating intelligence" is not unheard of in America.



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11 Mar 2016, 5:12 pm

Think about Archie Bunker's reaction to Mike Stivik on the show "All in the Family."

Archie could be described as a "New York redneck." Mike is a vaguely-leftist intellectual who doesn't work while he goes to college. He is supported by Archie.

Archie constantly makes cracks about Mike's supposed lack of common sense. And about the fact that Mike is not earning an "honest" living while accumulating book learning.

Edith, Archie's wife, points out that Archie envies Mike's accomplishments in the intellectual sphere, and that he doesn't hate Mike for being intellectual. It's all ego-driven bluster on part of Archie, according to Edith, because Archie did not get the opportunities Mike was able to get.

I feel the above is an apt illustration of many American's attitude towards intellectuals.



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11 Mar 2016, 5:28 pm

Majorities hate on minorities. This has always been and will always be the case. It says more about the education system in the US than about the people themselves.