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In reply to the discussion: America's Dangerous Turn to Anti-Intellectualism [View all]Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)58. It's probably more obvious to people coming from the lib arts background
I've got a couple of history degrees and allllll kinds of hostility from the STEM side of things.
CS and the various engineering fields are particularly good at "you have a history degree therefore you can't know about anything else, while my degree makes me an authority on everything," in my experience.
(It's extra annoying because my main professional interest is in subfields of history that heavily use the STEM side of things. Cloistered little disciplinary kingdoms with walls and airtight bubbles really piss me off.)
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If the idiots are willing to do anything it is better than talking the situation to death
Sweeney
Dec 2014
#7
I think book and music bannings and burnings are a phenomenon that breaks out in different places
Dustlawyer
Dec 2014
#18
"Reality has a known left wing bias", and facts clash with the repuke world view. Simple.
on point
Dec 2014
#12
*repeatedly* (OTOH they had Antikythera-level machines in Byzantium around 500)
MisterP
Dec 2014
#33
So "A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn" wouldn't be allowed either.
L0oniX
Dec 2014
#26
Yep. His book "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" was required reading
The Velveteen Ocelot
Dec 2014
#44
Scientism? Like what? As a computer engineering major I wonder what you're talking about.
alp227
Dec 2014
#54
TPTB desire a new generation of automatons, pliable cows easily herded against their own self
blkmusclmachine
Dec 2014
#47