But it is about being intelligent, because people who use those terms are using them in earnest, you just accuse them of trying to sound smart because you want to silence them and make them feel bad for challenging or correcting you, and it works.

People like you destroy intellectual curiosity by doing that all the time, and not just to me. I've had to fight to regain what little I was able to, because of people like you. Anti-intellectualism is NOT okay. It is very much its own kind of bigotry, and extremely dangerous.

Society absolutely does tell people not to be smart and it does so largely through people like you. The only way nerdy people are fun to be around to you is when they don't show it, or only enough to benefit you and certainly never to expose the fact that you don't know what you're talking about.

And I'm tired of it. I'm tired of having to walk on eggshells around people like you, shut the fuck up and deal with it when you're told with evidence you're wrong.

[–] noodle 1 points 1 year ago

It's own form of bigotry haha! My sides... Yep, that's right. You're the most oppressed. Right up there with gamers and Christians.

Okay mate, I'm gonna leave you be before you burst a blood vessel.

[–] ShustOne@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's nothing wrong with being smart. It's the smugness that is annoying and that's what this whole thing is about.

If you aren't one of those people than that's great and you shouldn't be bullied.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that the smugness, i.e., the confidence smart people display is annoying IS fundamentally thr problem. Smart people are allowed to be confident, to be smug, to be arrogant like everybody else, and that doesn't just go away because it makes stupid smug people feel bad about themselves or inferior.

And ALL intelligent people are falsely framed in this light, because the truth is that other people feeling inferior or jealous of them is all this is fundamentally about, and that is wrong.

Stop telling intelligent people they can't have positive self-esteem. I will NOT walk on eggshells around you anymore. I will not change who and what I am to spare your feelings. No intelligent person should have to.

[–] noodle 2 points 1 year ago

All this over a meme...

You might be booksmart, not that you're demonstrating it here, but you certainly have the emotional intelligence of a toddler. If you need to walk on eggshells around people, it would be because you're a vapid bellend and they're sick of your attitude.

The way you judge "everybody else" as stupid, as if intelligence is a good way to determine the value of a person, is frankly disgusting. It shows your contempt for other people.

If everywhere you go smells like shit, check your shoes. Now go do some deep thinking about that.