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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of this anti-elitism only succeeds in showing that we're out-of-touch with a certain part of America. How are they arguing that that's the REAL America and ours isn't?  And when it strays into anti-intellectualism it's downright scary.

People like me, who are urban and educated but have modest, middle-income families and depend on government funding for public service-oriented work, are being hurt by Tea Party attacks, not the real fat cats still laughing all the way to the bank.[/quote]

Charles Murray is not anti-intellectual.  You can disagree with The Bell Curve all you like -- and I do, strongly -- but his new book makes a lot of important points about class divisions in the U.S. Rather than attack the quiz as a straw man, you might want to read the book. Many public intellectuals and cultural critics are picking up his themes. [b]Even the NYT had a long news piece about this on Sunday. [/b][/quote]

Link please? I'm at my quota for the month so I need to click through from another site.[/quote]

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