Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 24, 2017
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Transcript:
Sean: Hey, good goin' on the National Merit scholarship, Kim! Fairly awesome! Kim: Thanks, Sean. Sean: Must be easier to be a grind if you grow up in an Asian family, huh? Kim: I wouldn't know. Sean: Huh? Kim: I'm adopted. My parents are Jewish. Sean: Jewish? Yo! Say no more! Kim: I wasn't planning to.
The late, great American science-fiction author Isaac Asimov said about that: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
Given your country’s latest presidential administration, I’d say the attitude of which Asimov spoke has reached its apex.