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Some communities regard all intellectuals as suspicious at best, and a danger to society at worst. This kind of prejudice sometimes crops up in isolated rural areas where most people lack a formal education and intellectuals are outsiders by default. Other times, such an attitude is the hallmark of a totalitarian dictatorship. If knowledge is power, then all that book-learning could pose a threat to the regime — better to keep the people ignorant and complacent. In a speculative fiction setting, the government might fear that scientists or other scholars are dangerously close to uncovering the truth behind The Masquerade, and must be suppressed at all costs. Sometimes, the fear and hatred of intellectuals stems from a past disaster: if half the world was destroyed in the Great Robot War of 3052, for example, the survivors may be wary of mechanical engineers. More often than not, however, the educated are merely a convenient scapegoat. After all, nobody likes a know-it-all. That jerk with his fancy college degree thinks he's better than you! Like other forms of institutionalized prejudice, this can be a brutally effective tool for directing the public's anger away from the government. An exaggerated situation of this trope (mainly in SF) happens when the intellectuals lean so much on the side of Ãœbermensch that they seem to form a new species to any "normal" human. Expect Torches and Pitchforks, maybe also Humans Are the Real Monsters. All of the above aside, it should be noted that sometimes the intellectuals were the ones persecuting others, making life miserable for other intellectuals they don't agree with. In this case, you have an Intellectually Supported Tyranny that doesn't appreciate other intellectuals who don't toe the line. See also Book Burning, which often accompanies the persecution of academics, and Tall Poppy Syndrome, where any sort of specialness is equally dangerous. Compare and contrast Evil Luddite and Intelligence Equals Isolation. For works that portray intelligent or learned people in a negative light, see Dumb Is Good and Science Is Bad. Contrast Academia Elitism, for people being persecuted for their lack of education. |
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A Vox Populi rebel in Bioshock Infinite tells his comrades to kill anyone they see wearing glasses, probably in reference to the Khmer Rouge doing the same. The Vox are not specifically anti-science or anti-intellectual, but as the poorest and most oppressed citizens of Columbia, they oppose anything that represents the upper classes. | |
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Land of the Blind: One of the signs the new regime is as bad as the old one is that they round up intellectuals and send them to re-education camps. | |
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In an episode of Becker, Becker is called to jury duty but keeps getting rejected. He believes that lawyers don't want him because they believe as a doctor he is too intelligent. At one point he almost gets accepted on a jury until he mentions he was reading a book. Meanwhile, his ditzy assistant Linda is quickly put on a jury and made foreman. | |
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In V (1983), The Visitors begin persecuting and rounding up scientists and getting humanity to go along with it, because scientists had readily identified that the Visitors were not actually Human Aliens, so they feared exposure of their true natures or nefarious agenda. In order to do this, they brainwashed famous scientists who blow the lid on a fake international conspiracy among scientists to seize Visitor technology, and say that they withhold breakthroughs like cancer treatments for money. | |
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Used several times as throwaway gags on The Simpsons to illustrate how much of a Crapsack World the town is (at least once to the point that even the corrupt mayor gets sick). Torches and Pitchforks are a common sight. In "A Star is Burns", Mayor Quimby shows a video of one time when Seymour Skinner saying that the Earth revolves around the Sun almost has him torched on the stake. Quimby is upset at how this has ruined the town's reputation. When tests of a mysterious skeleton fail to prove that it was the remains of an angel, the citizens of Springfield become enraged at science. The resulting riot culminates in the local research laboratories being bombed with Molotov cocktails and the museums being thrashed. In the episode "HOMR", Homer becoming incredibly smart (or at least comparatively) for a short time leads to him temporarily becoming a pariah.note Though that didn't really start until after he filed a report with the power plant that lead to massive lay-offs. In a parody of a Drunken Montage, he even wanders past signs saying "Dum-Dum Club" and "Smart People Not Welcome". In "Bart's Comet", when the titular comet almost destroys Springfield, the first reaction of the Springfeldians is to set the local observatory on fire "to prevent it from happening again." In "The Monkey Suit", we get one of the worst examples of The Lopsided Arm of the Law in fiction (and the current page picture) when Ned Flanders forces the Springfield school system to switch to creationism. As a result, Lisa gets arrested for daring to continue to read Charles Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" on school grounds, and this police force decides to wilfully ignore Snake going on a killing spree right in front of them (in Wiggum's defense, extremely feeble as it is, he sheepishly mentions the police department only has enough budget to enforce the most recent law passed, and he does admit that it's the absolute worst, far as policy goes). |
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In Hard to Be a God, intellectuals of all kinds (derisively dubbed "book-readers") are persecuted by the Evil Chancellor Don Reba and his storm troopers, to better prepare the country for annexation by an Enlightenment-hating theocracy. | |
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John LaMarr from The Orville grew up in a farming colony where eggheads weren't exactly prized, so he learned to adapt via Obfuscating Stupidity. When Kelly Grayson discovers how smart he really is, she gets Captain Mercer to promote him to chief engineer. | |
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Tales of the Bounty Hunters: In "The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett" we learn that the Empire had arrested and killed famous musicians who spoke out to protest them, along with trying to destroy all their music. Devaronian Kardue'sai'Malloc, Fett's bounty at the end of the story, owns the only remaining copies of many such musicians' work. He comes quietly with Fett in return for bringing his music recordings and disseminating them. Fett agrees to his offer. | |
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Discussed in the Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey episode "Hiding in the Light", which depicts the Burning of Books and Burying of Scholars that took place in the Qin dynasty. Neil deGrasse Tyson points to this as one of the great dangers to science and human achievement. | |
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In Attack on Titan, this is the true purpose of the Military Garrison's 1st battalion. They are charged with brutally persecuting scientists, inventors, explorers, and anyone who tries to find out too much about the outside world. | |
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Parade: The violently anti-Semitic people of rural Georgia are already suspicious of Leo Frank because he is Jewish, but the fact that he is one of the few men in town with a college degree doesn't help matters. Prosecutor Hugh Dorsey, milking the Simple Country Lawyer persona for all it's worth, even cites Leo's "big fancy talk" as evidence that he can't be trusted. | |
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In a flashback in the Blake's 7 audio "Solitary", Federation troops march into a school, round up the students and the teachers, and then execute the teachers for the crime of "agitation". The children are sent off to factories. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Time Enough at Last", everyone looks down on and picks on Henry Bemis for being a reader. In "The Obsolete Man", Romney Wordsworth the librarian is considered obsolete, as books have been banned. |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In the episode "Examination Day", the government exterminates anyone who scores too high on a mandatory examination at twelve years old. Dickie Jordan is one such victim. | |
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Exaggerated to the extreme in the short story Harrison Bergeron where even having, by today's standards, an average intelligence, athleticism, or appearance is handicapped in order for all to be equal by way of lowest denominator. | |
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four, those who are too openly intelligent are quietly eliminated, both from the Party ranks and the proletariat. This happens to Winston's friend Syme — even though he's a vociferous supporter of the regime, he "sees too clearly and speaks too plainly", and simply disappears one day. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale: Offred notes that all college professors were sent to the Colonies (a slow death from radiation poisoning) or... we don't get to hear the rest, but presumably killed. They spared Ofglen because she was fertile. We later learn that a prostitute was once a professor and (judging by Moira's story) was given the choice of working as this or going to the Colonies. When Emily meets a Wife who was sent to the Colonies, the Wife assumes that she was sent there for that reason, and tells her that she opposed the "university purges" because "getting an education doesn't make you a sinner." Emily doesn't correct her assumption until right before she kills the Wife. In the second episode of season 2, Offred encounters another version of this while hiding in the offices of the Boston Globe. All their desks are filled with their personal things as if they never left. When she goes to the basement of the building, she finds nooses, bullet holes, and human-sized bloodstains, suggesting they were all assassinated by the Gilead regime. |
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Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria: In the 4th century, anti-intellectuals did mass Book Burnings of libraries under the guise of "protecting" the youth from harmful ideas and bloated egos. They'd murder and imprison the librarians, with the imprisoned ones also being executed eventually. | |
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Always Visible: Jordan Thurlow's character is portrayed as a well-read bookworm who had the misfortune of meeting a girl whose parents accused her boyfriend of molesting their daughter. | |
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2000 AD: The short strip Danger! Genius At Work! features a society where intelligent people are persecuted because Individuality Is Illegal. Literally; all the men and women look exactly the same, are respectively named Terry or June, and anyone who tries to create progress by getting ideas for new inventions is forcibly put into the Equalizer, a machine that turns a person into a Terry or June. However, at the end one of the police officers who arrests intelligent people is shown getting struck by the spark of creativity himself. | |
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In Henry VI Part 2, Dick The Butcher says "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Although this is often interpreted as a standard Evil Lawyer Joke, the implication is that without lawyers, there would be nobody who knows any law to get in the way of Jack Cade's autocratic rule. | |
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Farscape: The Peacekeepers are implied to be somewhat anti-intellectual, with rank-and-file soldiers looking down on and oppressing the "techs" and also showing suspicion of Gammak Bases and the "Science-Military" based there. On the other hand, the officers in command of Gammak Bases, like Scorpius, are full-fledged scientists whose rank still commands respect, so this may only apply to technicians. | |
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In one episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Adam convinces the school to switch their grading system from picture stickers to competitive letter grades. Due to the animals' natural instincts to destroy all they declare a threat, Adam, as well Phineas Porpoise and his "Spiffy" gang, gets persecuted for being smart. The trope then gets inverted in the climax, where Adam gets other students to join him and the Spiffys by pointing out they are intelligent in their own way. The conflict ends with the "smart" students ganging up on the not-so-smart Henry Armadillo. | |
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In Tropico, intellectuals can be cowed into submission via Book Burning or become a banned faction altogether. | |
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In 30 Rock, Dotcom is often ridiculed, disrespected, or even disliked by others for being intelligent, articulate, and well-read. He's even told he has a "need to be the smartest guy in the room" and believes this is why he's still single. | |
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The Burning Kingdoms: Ahirani poets and scribes who had written in support of their country being independent are viciously executed for it by the Parijati who rule them. | |
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Cow and Chicken: The episode "Black Sheep of the Family" invokes and lampshades this. Because Cousin Black Sheep is actually a very articulate sheep, and the rest of this universe is a Cloud Cuckooland, other characters take Black Sheep's big words as insults, to the point that even Red Guy, who is Officer O'Fannihee, deems Black Sheep as a wanted criminal. | |
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The reason for the existence of the Firefighters in Fahrenheit 451. | |
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In the H.I.V.E. Series, this is how Dr. Nero sells the Alpha program to the scared first-years who have just been kidnapped and told they will not be able to go outside for the foreseeable future: that had they stayed in the outside world, they would be treated as outcasts for their intelligence. | |
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One Piece: In Robin's backstory, the scholars of Ohara were annihilated by the Marines because they pursued forbidden knowledge. Specifically, they sought the history of the "Void Century" which the World Government keeps hidden at all costs. Since Robin was affiliated with them and managed to escape, she became a wanted criminal at the age of 8. | |
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The Moon Cries in Reverse (Naruto): The whole plot of the series is set into motion by Anko fearing that her students Shikamaru and Sakura could turn on Konoha due to their intelligence making them question things too much for her liking. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the Sandaime and Ibiki decide her paranoia is reason enough to shunt the pair into their Torture and Interrogation department for several months, alongside their teammate Naruto. Hiruzen refuses to show any remorse for this, even after Jiriaya points out the likelihood of them turning on Konoha as a direct result of this mistreatment. | |
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Victoria has the heroes conducting a brutal purge of Straw Liberal college professors, while wearing Crusader surplices and wielding swords, with a Gregorian choir providing live musical accompaniment. This is broadcast throughout their new nation, to show that 'Cultural Marxism' has no place there. In fairness, the professors in question had done things like force men to prostrate before a temple to Artemis and publicly confess to PC "sins", but still... | |
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In Anathem, mathematicians (called "Avout") are confined to monasteries (called "Maths"), and only allowed contact with the outside world once per year, decade, century, or millennium. On three occasions the Maths were invaded because the Avout invented technologies considered too dangerous ("new matter", genetic engineering, and magic). There are lesser schools within the Maths, where outsiders can go for a limited amount of time (not more than a month) to learn needed skills, but the more advanced orders are shut off from the rest of society for the most part. | |
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In A Canticle for Leibowitz, this is part of the aftermath of global nuclear war. After the enraged survivors slaughter the scientists who developed the bombs, they begin to target other scientists... and then other scholars... and then anyone with a formal education. The ultimate result is a society where it's dangerous to admit that you know how to read. | |
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The Promise (2016): The main protagonist is a doctor who gets rounded up by the Ottoman authorities alongside several Armenian notables during the Red Sunday, the event usually regarded as beginning the Armenian Genocide (when over 200 intellectual Armenians were rounded up, with most killed). | |
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Genius: The Transgression has Clockstoppers. Walking avatars of anti-intellectualism who can turn even communities of scientists into an angry mob looking to persecute the intelligentsia. | |
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MartÃn Fierro When Fierro reflects that the Judge punished him because Fierro didn't vote the last election, Fierro invokes this trope arguing that The Judge took him for one of them, when the truth was that Fierro didn't vote because he is Dumb Is Good and he is simply not interested in that. | |
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In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, the planet Bryyo's backstory involves a war between the intellectual Lords of Science and the traditional Primals, which eventually ended with the Primals hunting down and killing any of intellectuals that remained after the war. | |
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