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In my experience, the only people I've ever met who bragged about their IQ have tended to be some of the dumbest people I've ever met.
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![For instance, we’ll soon come up on the ten-year anniversary of Peter Beinart’s 2017 “The Anti-anti Trump Right” column in The Atlantic, which defined most anything that isn’t explicit opposition to Trump as “evading the reality” and “opposing the people who oppose Trump.” Under that logic, just about anything could be dismissed as throat-clearing on the way to a refusal to Say The Required Things, about Trump. This half-clever formulation arrived in sync with a large chunk of American academia electing to purge the social sciences of “objective” pursuit of knowledge, or what one Literature professor derided as the act of “intentionally [dissociating] their work from the political and ideological exigencies of the time.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jgpydcxrqiixcihvkjengovj/bafkreiask6zuohxgkeebe7feca2tv2llqaiobbfmjbrrbiwyuppqhzufou)
