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Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots

75 points · 97 comments · speckx

  1. applicative · · focus · HN ↗
    Dunno what an intellectual is, but why would an anecdote from the seventies prove anything about that undefined genus?

    Poor Caldwell was in fact ruined by typical upscale British anti-Yankee fever, the respectable man’s anti’zionism’ but so much less libidinally rewarding than the real article. Cold War upscale Yankee snobbery often took on left wing coloration.

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