re: The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism

When I happened across this article I knew I had to post it. I have been posting on internet message boards since the early 1990’s. alt.civilwar, alt.worldwartwo, dixienet.org and some others. Even the most racist neo-confederate apologist never took issue with my using articles, books I had scanned, or primary sources that I would, you know, cut and paste into my responses.

The way that works for those of you that can’t fathom it, is that one person posts some article or segment of a book or whatever, along with a link, as bedrock for his or her position. Then you as the reader can evaluate the probity and accuracy of the source -maybe it is edited? And then -you- can formulate a response based on that material, and perhaps add your own. This, and I guess that I hate to use this term (pretty useless on this board), is an intellectual exercise.

After 20+ years of ranting and raving on the internet, this is the ONLY message board I have ever seen that dismissed source material out of hand. I don’t expect that to change, and I don’t expect things to go much better in this country because of the people who will running it in the future.