The refusal to acknowledge the professional acumen of an ethnicity other than one's own, based on a stereotype and position that one's racial/ethnic background is superior.
Ex 1: The intellectual ethno-dismissiveness (IED Complex)of voters who discredit the validity of President Barack Obama's abilities in office, fueled the Tea-Party movement.
Ex 2: A minority expert in his or her field is questioned or double-checked on findings. Meanwhile, the response of someone who fits the challenger's idea of "the expert" may have little or no experience, but is respected and accepted with few questions.
Ex 2: A minority expert in his or her field is questioned or double-checked on findings. Meanwhile, the response of someone who fits the challenger's idea of "the expert" may have little or no experience, but is respected and accepted with few questions.
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The term intellectual elitism has arisen recently with the birth of the reactionary and racist Tea Party, but there has been a growing bias against informed, educated people since Ronald Reagan was the President of the U.S.
The term intellectual elitism has arisen recently with the birth of the reactionary and racist Tea Party, but there has been a growing bias against informed, educated people since Ronald Reagan was the President of the U.S.
Fox entertainment news anchor Glenn Beck believes that everyone with more than a fifth grade education is an intellectual elitist.
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S: "Go play with your means of reproduction"
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Armed with 10,000 internets, intellectual terrorists studiously exposed his slew of logical fallacies, shredding any remaining credibility he had to pull the wool over the public's eyes.
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intellectual property: any product of someone's intellect that has commercial value: copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets.
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intellectual prop-argh-ty!: what a pirate says to express annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration about intellectual property.
intellectual property: any product of someone's intellect that has commercial value: copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets.
argh: what a pirate says to express annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration.
intellectual prop-argh-ty!: what a pirate says to express annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration about intellectual property.
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