Yup. To the conservative mindset, the notion of having aspiration to bettering oneself, etc. == “pseudointellectual”. I cannot tell you how many conversations I’ve had from people that did not go to college and did not plan to go to college about how all those “college people” are. Also, calling someone an “intellectual” is considered an insult among conservatives. Calling them a pseudointellectual is spicing it up, LOL.
I still remember a conversation with an in-law where his literal mic-drop line (he thought) was to huff, “yeah, but YOU went to college!” He literally believes that going to college somehow taints a person. He has said as much, explicitly. He doesn’t want his kids going to college, either, because he thinks it will ruin them/turn them against him or whatever, with the “woke mind virus”. FFS.
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Yup. To the conservative mindset, the notion of having aspiration to bettering oneself, etc. == “pseudointellectual”. I cannot tell you how many conversations I’ve had from people that did not go to college and did not plan to go to college about how all those “college people” are. Also, calling someone an “intellectual” is considered an insult among conservatives. Calling them a pseudointellectual is spicing it up, LOL.
I still remember a conversation with an in-law where his literal mic-drop line (he thought) was to huff, “yeah, but YOU went to college!” He literally believes that going to college somehow taints a person. He has said as much, explicitly. He doesn’t want his kids going to college, either, because he thinks it will ruin them/turn them against him or whatever, with the “woke mind virus”. FFS.