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Will the world ever stop being anti-intellectual? (discuss.online)

submitted 1 year ago by ThePenitentOne@discuss.online to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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One of the most aggravating things to me in this world has to be the absolutely rampant anti-intellectualism that dominates so many conversations and debates, and its influence just seems to be expanding. Do you think there will ever actually be a time when this ends? I'd hope so once people become more educated and cultural changes eventually happen, but as of now it honestly infuriates me like few things ever have.

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[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think UK is the same: right wing party is the party of well educated voters so they don't promote anti-intellectual ideas.

That maybe was the case at one time. Labor was certainly the party of the common man.

But Tories became more populist as xenophobia and racism became more valuable to them. Just look at all the Brexit nonsense and their embrace of UKIP. Michael Gove, a prominent member of the conservative party, during the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, said in favor of Brexit, "I think the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong."

Edit: but I'm not British, so I could be wrong.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 1 year ago

Edit: but I’m not British, so I could be wrong.

Same, I'm not British so I'm basing this only on what I've see in the news but as I see it it's more about nationalism and racism than anti-intellectualism. It's more like "it's time to stop listening to the economists and just kick all the foreigners out". You know, as in experts might be right about the economy suffering but we don't care, we just want "our country back". I really don't see a lot of "education is bad, universities are bad" propaganda from UK right. Boris was definitely pretending he didn't got to the elite schools and clubs but the rest of recent PMs do not.