Literature and intellectual snobbery have always gone hand in glove, and people have always lied about what they read.
But, once they could read my books, intellectual snobbery set in; they loved those Latin polysyllables.
This is intellectual snobbery based on class and directed at children about whose academic abilities we know nothing.
Epstein's self-scrutiny wavers most when trained on the "intellectual snobbery" he acquired as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago.
A good example of intellectual snobbery.
For Mr. de Verges of TF1, intellectual snobbery is still a problem.
Willoughby accused scientists of "intellectual snobbery", and opposed tax revenues going to support education offensive to his religious views.
He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.
The split between gnere and literature is just another case of intellectual snobbery.
I agree that the 'split' is entirely caused by intellectual snobbery.