"Smarter Than Thou" National Review

[bobabode]

WTF?

https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/a...1/smarter-thou

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opini...729-story.html

[BlueStreak]

It's psychology, Bob. No one really likes to think someone else might actually be smarter than them. So, if you want to tap into that resentment (for purely political purposes), you paint people such as Tyson and colleagues and the others as "elitist snobs" and vilify everything they say and do as part of some sort of sinister plot.

This article is the National Reviews version of "Two Minutes Hate" and Neil DeGrasse Tyson is "Goldstein".

See how that works?

Dave

[finnbow]

Conservatives are frightened of an educated, informed public. Informed opinion on evolution, global warming, history, etc. would end up with them losing their support from the Religious Right, nativists, and large industrialists.

[nailer]

The ruling class is generally afraid of an educated headcount. Fear is a means to obtain, and more importantly, to hold power. Ignorance is the path to fear.

[Tom Joad]

Another Uppity Nigger what don't know his place.

That boy needs to be sent down the river to Mississippi where he can be put to working doing what God intended for him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vCK8mSyhb0

[nailer]

Originally Posted by tom joad

another uppity nigger that is threatening the 'murican way of life.

That boy needs to be put in his place.

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[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by nailer

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Be sure to forward it to all your bagger friends.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Another Uppity Nigger that is threatening the 'Murican way of life.

That boy needs to be put in his place.

There no doubt that the cover, with it's smug caricature black man and the big type "SMARTER THAN THOU," is consciously punching a big button for that portion of their readership that has 'superior to blacks' as a tenet of their identity. They are working racial resentment as well as anti-intellectual resentment here.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

There no doubt that the cover, with it's smug caricature black man and the big type "SMARTER THAN THOU," is consciously punching a big button for that portion of their readership that has 'superior to blacks' as a tenet of their identity. They are working racial resentment as well as anti-intellectual resentment here.

Many American conservatives are rolling over in their graves ...

[Ike Bana]

When one considers that there's a choice between the George Will types and the Rush Limbaugh types...it shouldn't surprise anybody much that the GOP has been bleeding out for 25 years, at least in the one nationwide election.