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- n. A sentiment of hostility towards, or mistrust of, intellectuals and intellectual pursuits.
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They maintained orthodox Protestant beliefs, but shed the anti-intellectualism and insularity that had come to characterize fundamentalists in the wake of their post-Scopes withdrawal.
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Prescriptivism in the strange fiction genres is ideally situated to act as carrier of anti-intellectualism and classism, with advocates of more commercial fiction decreeing complex works “improper” and advocates of more complex fiction decreeing commercial works “improper”, each opponent of “elitist wank” or “populist trash” ironically engendering a counter-response that abjects them as a “pleb” or a “snob”.
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Gawd, the anti-intellectualism in here is thick tonight.
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But I'm afraid that won't have any effect on an unhinged base for whom anti-intellectualism is a virtue.
CNN Poll: President's approval on health care under 50 percent
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Snark: exhibiting the lowest levels of anti-intellectualism or an admirable passion for literature?
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To keep an eye on things that I am wary of: anti-intellectualism, pseudo-science, lying to children, extremism, scriptural literalism, anti-blasphemy laws and the like.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: Why Do Atheists Read the Religion Section?
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What applies to O'Donnell applies as well to most of the other Tea Party candidates who, as Sean Wilentz recently pointed out in the New Yorker, are the intellectual heirs of conservative anti-intellectualism.
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They saw anti-intellectualism as an attack on their own identity as well educated middle class people.
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Many indeed have only recently identified themselves as liberals in response to the anti-intellectualism of the Bush Administration and the Tea Party Movement.
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