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He is not sneering at education itself, he is pointing at the (assumed) cultural and political background of that person and how it isn't surprising that someone that probably finds himself at the very center of woke culture is missing the point completely.

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I've tried reading it the way you suggest, but it still reads as a sneer at the educated to me - `of course an Ivy League educated liberal would miss the point`. I agree with quite a lot of the points the author makes, Joe Rogan is a dangerous imbecile, but I find the _way_ he makes those points very distasteful.

> He is not sneering at education itself, he is pointing at the (assumed) cultural and political background of that person

You can't untangle those things.

Education is seen as the cause of the "(assumed) cultural and political background of that person", and therefore education becomes the target.

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