Sheriff Joe
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Letting people know what academia is up to.
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Sheriff Joe
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Actually back page.
Hating the educated and the media are the classic hallmarks...if you guys read history books you’d know how cliche your views are...
Andy Dukes
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You should demand they return your endowment.
and you care about this why, exactly?
His twitter master told him to be concerned.
Multi Sport
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Perfect reply from you..
Multi Sport
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You sound so full of hate. Why is that?
Why do I hate the notion of people around hating the media and academics? Because they're a danger to democracy and that behavior has a tragic history. Does that answer your question? I hate when people value ignorance over knowledge. So should you.
Multi Sport
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Your post makes no sense. So you hate people that question the media and academia because they are a danger to democracy? Help me out here Xav.. tragic history?
Like questioning the academia back in the day that the Earth was flat?
Like questioning the media who run with false stories?
Is you just want people to fall in line, no questions asked? But yet you post that you value knowledge over ignorance. Don't you think you gain knowledge from challenging the status quo?
You're all over the place..
I'm not sure what you mean by "academia", but Greek academicians had declared the Earth was round as long ago as 500 BCE, and Eratosthenes some time before 200 BCE even made a fairly accurate measurement of its size (less than 10% off), remarkable in that his only instruments were a protractor and the accepted estimate of the distance between Alexandria and Syene, a town in southern Egypt that happens to lie directly on the Tropic of Cancer.
Multi Sport
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My reply was to Xav post, where he included Academia. You did see that?
Sheriff Joe
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Sheriff Joe
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What value can that class have at an Ivy League U?
Sheriff Joe
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Who said I hate the media and the educated, whatever that means.
Sheriff Joe
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Groupthink.
Brownshirts.
I see the headline proclaim "in the Senate" but the video shows people in the courtyard of an office building.
Anti-intellectualism is hostility to and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectualism commonly expressed as deprecation of education and philosophy, and the dismissal of art, literature, and scienceas impractical and even contemptible human pursuits.[1] Anti-intellectuals present themselves and are perceived as champions of common folk—populists against political and academic elitism. They tend to see educated people as a status class detached from the concerns of most people, and feel that intellectuals dominate political discourse and control higher education.[2]
Totalitarian governments manipulate and apply anti-intellectualism to repress political dissent.[3] During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the following right-wing dictatorship (1939–1975) of General Francisco Franco, the reactionary repression of the White Terror (1936–1945) was notably anti-intellectual, with most of the 200,000 civilians killed being the Spanish intelligentsia, the politically active teachers and academics, artists and writers of the deposed Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939).[4] In the Communist state of Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979), the Khmer Rouge régime of Pol Potcondemned most of the non–Communist intelligentsia to death in the Killing Fields.[5]
He said "academics", but I will accept your "flat-earth" response as evidence that you don't know the difference.