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Another “Intellectual Moron”: Stephanie von Schnurbein and Academic Machwerk
Posted by admin on January 8th, 2009 filed in Main
Another “Intellectual Moron”: Stephanie von Schnurbein and Academic Machwerk
By Edred
An “intellectual moron” is someone who is blinded from any rational thought or analysis by ideological preconceptions and prejudices. In times and places where intellectual purity is required—e.g, the Christian Middle Ages, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, or present-day American academia—as long as the ideological template [...]