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Old 06-09-2020, 07:24 PM   #2076
Tyrone Slothrop
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Re: Objectively intelligent.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield View Post
Ty’s author is arguing the same position William Henry raised years ago in In Defense of Elitism. Henry argues that certain culture was simply More Worthy of Attention. And other culture should receive less attention. Henry, however, did it from a conservative perspective, so had he lived, he’d be thrown into Ty’s sphere of deviancy today.
Congratulations on getting Jeet Heer exactly wrong. Whatever the opposite of elitist is, he is that.
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