Anti-Intellectual?

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Is it really that Americans are particularly "anti-intellectual" or does most of what we tend to label "anti-intellectual" have everything to do with frustrations over class, rising income inequality, and college becoming ever more unafforable?

 Personally, I think it's the latter.

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