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eugeneliberal

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Tue Jun-20-06 08:52 AM
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8. Maybe because we're not "common"

My ex-husband used to say to me, "You're really smart, but you have no common sense." It's an unintelligent person's reaction to someone who is intelligent and logical. It justifies their own stupidity. They're not ignorant; they have common sense!

In Richard Hofstadter's book "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life," he discusses how during the 1950s right-wing crusade, the rhetoric was the same. "Harvard professors, twisted-thinking intellectuals...in the State Department;" those who are "burdened with Phi Beta Kappa keys and academic honors" but not "equally loaded with honesty and common sense."

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