Kamala Harris — and the Washington-oriented tribe of A students she represents — love the facts. They love adhering to the law, following the rules, being judicious. They love meetings. To discuss. For the A students the process becomes as important as the outcome, which is to say that accountability is to the numbers and not to the people.
This is accurate, but dividing up the population into “A students” vs “everyone else” seems an unhealthy way to frame it, I guess the writer is using this because he can’t just say NERDS and that’s what they really mean but yeah. The anti-intellectualism is a bad play, particularly when so many of the very best communists I know are such ultra nerds that they make the “A students” look like children.
Yeah, I feel like Chapo’s derisive use of ‘Lanyards’ is a much better way to describe this group of people. It’s not so much that they are smarter or particularly interested in learning as they are in appeasing power to acquire credentials
I didn’t read it so much as anti-intellectualism but rather a group of people who think they’re smarter than everyone else. It’s basically the rule lawyer crowd who only care about being correct within their own definition of correctness.
This is accurate, but dividing up the population into “A students” vs “everyone else” seems an unhealthy way to frame it, I guess the writer is using this because he can’t just say NERDS
and that’s what they really mean but yeah. The anti-intellectualism is a bad play, particularly when so many of the very best communists I know are such ultra nerds that they make the “A students” look like children.
Yeah, I feel like Chapo’s derisive use of ‘Lanyards’ is a much better way to describe this group of people. It’s not so much that they are smarter or particularly interested in learning as they are in appeasing power to acquire credentials
I didn’t read it so much as anti-intellectualism but rather a group of people who think they’re smarter than everyone else. It’s basically the rule lawyer crowd who only care about being correct within their own definition of correctness.
I kinda’ agree. Although I think it’s because I’m skeptical these people are all actually A students in the first place.
To be fair, being an A student in the US is way more about complying with power structures than it is about knowing things.
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