American Anti-Intellectualism
Examples of prejudice against nerds in America.
Folksonomies: prejudice anti-intellectualism
Memes
19 JAN 2013
America is Naturally Anti-Science
In the end, politics is about story. Robert McKee, Hollywood's master of storytelling, views the world from the top of America's other great cultural export—its movies.
"1 think that the American ethos is not science-friendly and never has been," he says. "The American model is Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Guys who never went to college and who were geniuses and invented things, and people like them. The inventor versus the scientist. Somebody who can go west, discover gold mines, and crea...
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Science is hard work, America is about the dream of Hollywood. We are living on the benefits of science, but will those innovations become cultural rituals if we won't do what we need to do to promote science and education?
28 MAR 2011
John Quincy Adams VS Andrew Jackson, Nerd VS Fighter
John Quincy Adams,
Who can write,
And Andrew Jackson,
Who can fight.Folksonomies: anti-intellectualism
Folksonomies: anti-intellectualism
An American newspaper describes the choice between the two presidential candidates with this slogan.
28 MAR 2011
Ichabod Crane, America's First Fictional Nerd
[Ichabod Crane] was a native of Connecticut; a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head wa...Folksonomies: anti-intellectualism
Folksonomies: anti-intellectualism
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow's main character's biggest flaw is that he is a nerd, and after her vanishes, the people move the school and burn some of his books.
28 MAR 2011
Obama is a Nerd, and That's Bad
[Obama White House is] the kid in school who waves his A test score in front of the entire class but never gets picked to play baseball. He’s an arrogant nerd, and no matter how smart he is, he can’t hit, he can’t throw and he can’t run.Folksonomies: anti-intellectualism
Folksonomies: anti-intellectualism
1 Mike Huckabee says the problem with Obama is that he's a nerd and isn't into sports.
01 JAN 2010
Limbaugh Attacks Science and Academia as
You know, folks, the two universes here -- The Universe of Lies, The Universe of Reality -- they don't overlap anymore. And this is even bigger than global warming, which was my point yesterday. It's about everything that the left is involved in. What this fraud, what the uncovering of this hoax exposes, is the corruption that exists between government and academia and science and the media. Science has been corrupted. We know the media has been corrupted for a long time. Academia has b...Folksonomies: irrationalism
Folksonomies: irrationalism
Science, academia, government, and media form four pillars of a web of lies in Limbaugh's world, while the world he describes, the world of conservative talk radio, Fox News, and Conservapedia, is reality.
References
08 JAN 2013
Fool Me Twice
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Otto , Shawn Lawrence (2011-10-11), Fool Me Twice, Rodale Press, Retrieved on 2013-01-08Source Material [books.google.com]
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28 MAR 2011
The Old Republicans: Southern conservatism in the age of ...
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Risjord , Norman K (1965), The Old Republicans: Southern conservatism in the age of Jefferson, Columbia University Press, Retrieved on 2011-03-28
Folksonomies: politics
Folksonomies: politics
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28 MAR 2011
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Library Edition)
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Irving , Washington (2010-10-01), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Library Edition), Blackstone Audio, Inc., Retrieved on 2011-03-28
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28 MAR 2011
A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Wa...
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Huckabee , Mike (2011-02-22), A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington (and a Trillion That We Don't!), Sentinel HC, Retrieved on 2011-03-28
Folksonomies: politics
Folksonomies: politics
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01 JAN 2010
ClimateGate Hoax: The Universe of Lies Versus the Univers...
Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Limbaugh, Rush (11/24/2009), ClimateGate Hoax: The Universe of Lies Versus the Universe of Reality, Premiere Radio Networks, Retrieved on -0001-11-30Source Material [www.rushlimbaugh.com]
Folksonomies: irrationalism
Folksonomies: irrationalism
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