Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim, I really hate this. This myth of a connection between intelligence and > right opinion is totally disabling of intelligent left analysis. > > "Analysis" can be stupid or intelligent; it is false to apply either > adjective to persons. > > > from the 19th century thinker John Stuart Mill (via Paul Krugman via Brad > > deLong): > > > > "I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I > meant > to say that stupid people are generally Conservative...." > > > > we can replace the word "Conservative" by "Republican" or whomever is the > > target of our ire. > it's meant to be a cute quote and nothing more.
I must say that I find myself objecting a lot when my friends describe George W. Bush or Muhammed Morsi or whoever as "dumb" or "stupid." I agree that the connection between intelligence and right opinion is a total myth and a very poor kind of analysis. -- Jim Devine / "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick
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