This is still the optimistic take - that decisions are being made for a sensible if socially sub-optimal reason. A different take is that they want to exclude intelligence because intelligent people cause all kinds of problems as the orthodoxy gets stupider and crazier.
That pressure isn't only about ignoring *markers* of intelligence - that pressure includes actual hostility to the idea of intelligence. This feeds on itself because it's far easier to be orthodox in 2021 if you're stupid - or can fake it.
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Plenty of smart people _believe_ this shit, others can fake it. It is not so much smarts they reject, rather mental independence, which has never been terribly popular or common.
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People like people who are smart enough to know what's good for them, is my impression. More than that, in any sense, and...
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