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There is intellectualism and there is "intellectualism" ...

While there is a disturbing habit for politics to devolve into simple catch phrases and tabloid news in the western world, more often than not when people refer to "anti-intellectualism" they’re really upset that people reject propaganda that is being pushed by academics in fields that could best be described as institutionalized political activism.