On Calling People Stupid: Bitch-slap

[vap0rtranz]

Calling people stupid is synoymous to calling them retarded.  Opinions, arguments -- words -- are stupid.  People are not stupid.

I just searched my friend's list and am prepared to call people out for using this label.  Before blasting half my friends away, I want to note a trend.  A person usually calls kinds of people stupid, and this lends

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[vap0rtranz]

That's fine, but it's a mute opinion that festers problems of prejudice. You value logical/reasonable intelligence moreso than musical and conjure up a myriad of reasons -- like reading a recipe for cooking, as you allude to "food" -- but I see no difference when a person values music over logic. They'd have equally valid reasons for their preference and might eat their way through life quite illogically. (I can't find an example because I think everyone is somewhat logical -- a point where we seem to agree -- but the insidiousness of me judging everyone to be logical and living in a world ruled by logic would be disastrously heretical to socio-cultural activists who say that everything is relative and there are no absolutes. *evil grin*) Regardless, the admition in kinds of intelligences still complicates our ability to make universal proclamations on par with "everyone is not smart". i.e. We run into problems explaining the cut-off; the limit to our opinions. In history, other properties have determined a person's worth, like white, Protestant men are smarter by virtue of their race, religion and sex.