Anti-intellectualism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-05

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00:01:36 1 Ideological anti-intellectualism
00:04:24 2 Academic anti-intellectualism
00:04:35 2.1 United States
00:06:54 2.2 Distrust of intellectuals
00:11:21 2.3 17th century
00:14:05 2.4 19th century
00:16:17 2.5 20th–21st centuries
00:20:15 2.5.1 An uneducated society
00:22:18 2.5.2 Corporate mass media
00:25:06 2.5.3 Confirmation bias
00:26:11 3 In Europe
00:26:20 3.1 Communism
00:28:05 3.2 Fascism
00:30:46 4 In Asia
00:30:55 4.1 China
00:31:03 4.1.1 Imperial China
00:32:43 4.1.2 People's Republic of China
00:34:22 4.2 Democratic Kampuchea
00:35:08 4.3 Ottoman Empire
00:35:45 5 See also
00:35:55 6 Footnotes
00:36:04 7 Further reading
00:38:13 8 External links



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Anti-intellectualism is hostility to and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectualism commonly expressed as deprecation of education and philosophy, and the dismissal of art, literature, and science as impractical and even contemptible human pursuits. Anti-intellectuals present themselves and are perceived as champions of common folk—populists against political and academic elitism—and tend to see educated people as a status class detached from the concerns of most people, and feel that intellectuals dominate political discourse and control higher education.Totalitarian governments manipulate and apply anti-intellectualism to repress political dissent. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the following fascist dictatorship (1939–1975) of General Francisco Franco, the reactionary repression of the White Terror (1936–1945) was notably anti-intellectual, with most of the 200,000 civilians killed being the Spanish intelligentsia, the politically active teachers and academics, artists and writers of the deposed Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939). In the communist state of Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979), the Khmer Rouge régime of Pol Pot condemned all of the non-communist intelligentsia to death in the Killing Fields.