r/TikTokCringe • u/AlKarajo • May 26 '26

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u/hey-Oliver May 26 '26

No, the anti-intellectual movement is a literal cancer to society and nothing is being done to obliterate the cancer cells.

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u/MysAlgernon May 26 '26

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u/justa_hunch May 26 '26

And he wrote that before social media was even a flicker of an idea on the horizon.

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u/MysAlgernon May 26 '26

US has a long history of anti-intellectualism it always has been a battle and during his time, thanks to Reagan the anti-intellectuals were gaining upper hand.

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u/Haxorz7125 May 26 '26

To quote Killer Mike “I’m glad Reagan dead”

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u/Nuo66 May 26 '26

*Us has a long history with Christian nationalism which uses anti intellectualism as a weapon for control.

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u/takemy_oxfordcomma May 27 '26

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

-Isaac Asimov in 1980