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[momonica05]

What people don't get about anti-intelectualism: it's not about booktok

I always feel so angry at this whole booktok anti-intelectualism discussion because people are now "pro intelectualism" without knowing what it really means outside the internet or the US (oh, the irony)

It's not about booktok. Anti-intelectualism is when you go against the european/US standards of what is intellect. It's looking outside of hollywood, of Broadway, of reading and recognizing the literature (CLASSIC OR NOT!!) of your country instead of undermining it just because it's not from Europe or United States

It is a form of art against the christian eurocentric "american" way of what art and knowledge is! I could go on and on about how intellectualism as you know fucking sucks because it's basically saying that the only source of intellect that matters is X or Y (AND ITS ALWAYS ENGLISH), or how at least the kids on booktok are actually READING and that alone is good because of the incentive to read, even if crap books, is valid. We need to remember these books are WAY more accessible than your usual classics, so one kid reading Twilight can grow a passion for reading, which my generation seriously lacks. Which brings me to another thing: language. Anti-intelectualism is also the use of non-formal or popular language too, because it wants to reach the people!

I'm tired and my english is frying my head so I'll end it here with a little message: just because someone reads bad smut Kylo Ren fanfiction, doesn't mean she will never read Pride and Prejudice. If she finds the language boring well guess what its because it fucking is.