Is there a culture of hate for academics or educated people among the fringe people in the world?

[jennifer_bloom]

I had people bully people multiple times, even paid staff like secretaries or managers or volunteer coordinators would bully me like common school yard bullies and I had people try to ban me from writing groups with lies and they once said I used a lot of big words which I think is the reason they hated me enough to maliciously and illegally attack me.

This wasn't an isolated incident, it was a routine event that happened over and over again. Sometimes I was able to prove my innocence and still got removed from groups just because the people who hated me were more plentiful than the ones that were not jealous of me. People viewed me as competition and wanted to lower my professional and social and financial and emotional and moral value.

In the bible the pharisees were deeply jealous of Jesus so it's possible that evil people are jealous good people have advantages that they do not. English used to be my worst subject in school, I was so bad at it, I came close to failing, I became a talented writer through hard work and dedicated effort, and people complained that I was a snob cause I had access to a wider vocabulary then them.

[MrOracle]

There's a big problem with academics, where so many of them have book knowledge (and FAR too many will literally believe ANYTHING if it's been published) and "knowledge" from their academic echo chambers, but very little knowledge of the real world or what we call common sense.

For example, who is it that can't seem to define what a woman is - something every 5 year old can do? It's almost entirely academics, who have spent their whole lives in academia and the theoretical world in their mind. Out in the real world, they are not just useless, they are too often a hindrance because they don't even know what they don't know. And, yet, those very same people have been bullying people who disagree with them and doing everything they can to censor and cancel them for ANY perceived deviation from the official narrative - even if that narrative is 180 degrees opposed to what it was last week.

An academic could be convinced that Earth is a gas giant planet with 40 times current gravity - all they need is a book that says so and Neil Degrass Tyson to mention it, and it will be FACT - despite the evidence of their own eyes and senses.

There are obviously exceptions to the rule, but average people are very, VERY over the BS that's come out of academia, especially the last decade, and, so, yes, there is a LOT of animosity. Just from the pandemic alone, many have lost jobs, family members, or their health from vaccine mandates that academia fully backed, and now that the vaccine has proven to be largely ineffective AND poses major health risks, academics just shrug and move on. And that's one of many examples where academic theory fails against common sense.

[BoobMan]

I've just started reading Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell. I think you'd definitely enjoy it.

[MrOracle]

TS is excellent.

[Sabretooth]

https://youtu.be/1X9jJrZexqE?si=7RdTToErg4Iu-849