Anti-intellectualism inhibits learning

[devonin]

Devonin, you're supporting Cob's OP complaint about anti-intellectualism right now so much it's sad and paradoxical because you're not anti-intellectual.

How on earth am I supporting his complaints about anti-intellectualism. I'm not saying word one that could even be construed that way.

I'm saying "The reason people are bothered by your posts is that you are wordy for no good reason, and that you seem to go out of your way to communicate poorly when every indication shows you should be bright enough to communicate quite clearly and concisely."

I might as well show what I mean. What I'm going to do now is edit coberst's OP (in a quote) to say the exact same thing as it currently means, but with simpler wording

But the problem with re-writing his post in simpler language is that it removes the aspect of his post where he was trying to be a smartass to imply that people here are giving him **** for "being an intellectual" when in fact, we're giving him **** for talking down to people for no good reason.

I'm really amused by his whole "How do I write, when I have 12, 18 and 30 year olds listening to me? It seems no matter what I do, someone will get pissed off" when in fact, the problem with his posts has nothing to do with the age group it appears to be written for.