@runawaycornpop.bsky.social: In whatever fairness The bar for "intellectual" is wayyyy lower on the right

Remembering how people would share Scalia dissents and be like “I disagree with his politics but he has a way with words!!” and they all read like if a school shooter wrote A Confederacy of Dunces

When you read him in law school it’s so appalling to see his complete intellectual dishonesty laid out in flowery prose.

100%. I thought (and probably said, knowing me) "This guy is supposed to be a right-wing 'intellectual'"?

In whatever fairness The bar for "intellectual" is wayyyy lower on the right

can't disagree with that

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