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this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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I wanna bring up that people are still trying to find words for someone who is not intelligent. Intelligence being a single thing that can only increase or decrease is an inherently ableist concept. It’s pseudoscientific and has been used to justify mass murder and sterilization among other things. The fact that it’s such a widespread idea that almost everyone believes is irrelevant to the fact that it’s ableist and incorrect.
What about all the anti intellectuals that literally make being unintelligent a part of their personality and reject arguments from other people explicitly because thenother people know what they're talking about.
There's a massive gap between "I have a hard time retaining information and struggle with that issue" and "capitalism is the best system because America is number 1 and if you try to tell me otherwise you're a commie and ill fight you"
Anti-intellectual seems just fine for that. Intellectualism is a lot more complex and social than someone’s capacity with a correlated set of skills. So is anti-intellectualism.