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Friday, 9 August 2019

What were the biggest anti-intellectual movements in history?

Dear Friends:

I’m not an expert on this..... but here are some that come to mind:
  • Maoś Cultural Revolution that purged “stinking intellectuals”
  • Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge - if you wore glasses you were an intellectual, and were killed
  • Catholic church’s opposition to Galileo and anyone else who challenged doctrine, facts be damned
  • Catholic church’s opposition to translations of the bible, and the printing press in general, lest people challenge the bullshit they were told in church
  • American evangelicals challenging evolution in particular and science in general
  • Boko Haram in Nigeria and obscurantist Islamic factions in general. To think that once the leading mathematicians, astronomers, and doctors in the western world were muslim.
  • Trumpś political campaigns
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