The Intellectuals' Assault on Intelligence - American Thinker

The Intellectuals' Assault on Intelligence - American Thinker
"When I went to college in the 1980s, I recall how inscrutable the politics of many of my professors was.
...The students could never figure out where the professor stood. 
...That was a time when there was assumed to be a shared human experience that the brilliant masters of the humanities were able to capture, before multiculturalism or university departments whose names ended in studies or microaggressions or safe spaces. 

This truly was a safe space, for thought. 

That was a time when universities were sanctuaries for free thought rather than the arsenals against free thought that they have now become.
The current class of intellectuals...now flout the principles of logic and reason far more than their relentlessly mocked uneducated rubes ever did. 

Complex issues requiring thoughtful analysis of probabilistic tradeoffs and consequences are replaced with simplistic models that would have left the intellectuals of yesteryear aghast. 

• Where complicated continuums are warranted, binary scales are substituted in which anything besides absolute purity is considered evil. 
• False analogies, poor pattern recognition, hasty conclusions, misjudging the whole by a part, ascribing false motives and meanings have become the artisan bread and butter of the pontificating patricians. 
• Double standards abound in which moving goalposts of unethical or even criminal behavior are applied to capture political opponents, while flexible extenders are granted to liberate supporters. 
• Political opponents, along with groups they may be associated with, are defined by their worst moments or qualities or members, regardless of how insignificant. 
• Conversely, supporters and their associated groups will be defined by their best moments and qualities and members, no matter how meager. 
• Finally all the abuses of logic and reason are wrapped up in shiny packages called science-data-facts with great big bows called decency so that those who refuse such offerings are taunted, censored, blacklisted, and ultimately criminalized...Read all!