{"id":5289,"date":"2017-07-13T12:50:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5289"},"modified":"2017-12-23T08:17:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T13:17:33","slug":"hillbilly-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5289","title":{"rendered":"Hillbilly resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is now a cottage industry that produces essays having the following form: the reason Trump got elected is because liberal snobs have long looked down their noses at regular folks and the regular folks were just plum tired of it so voted for Trump despite his evident shortcomings. I read the first one of these in the Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> <\/a>or Inside Higher Ed<\/em> within days of the election. They have followed at a steady trickle.<\/p>\n

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a variation<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0the other day from someone in Philadelphia:<\/p>\n

A lot of people out there are tired of being called stupid, whether directly to their faces or indirectly with the raised eyebrow of the highbrow. I almost think they can deal with being called racist, sexist or homophobic (which some are, some aren’t and who cares anyway, since liberals are exactly the same,) but cannot deal with being ridiculed for their allegedly inferior intellects.<\/p>\n

When people do that, they just galvanize the Hillbilly Resistance to reject any notion that the press is in danger, that Trump is a beast, that Ivanka is a Stepford daughter, that Melania lives in a tower and lets down her hair on weekends, and that we are in danger of another revolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have two comments. Before those, a confession. I hate being called stupid. I hate it because, to be honest, I fear that it may be true. When someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s accusation is particularly well phrased, it costs me a lot of time (and maybe some money if I have to buy books or something) to consider the question. Back to my comment.<\/p>\n

First, these people are snowflakes, apparently. They so bristle at the thought of having their beliefs questioned that the behave irrationally. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think of much that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more insulting than that claim.<\/p>\n

Second, if someone knows a way you can disagree with someone without there being the very real implication that one of you is mistaken and has therefore failed in some kind of cognitive obligation (i.e., is stupid), then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m all ears. \u00c2\u00a0Your answer may make me feel bad because I currently think there isn’t one.<\/p>\n

In closing, the implication that people with whom you disagree are deficient is not something that has suddenly just appeared, by the way:<\/p>\n

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