To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”
They’re stupid if they don’t know those things and refuse to learn them.
People are allowed to call others stupid and be right about it.
People aren’t committing some great sin by doing so.
The idea we are is the idea the willfully ignorant use to manipulate everyone else into accepting their selfish indolence and it needs to stop.
Part of the problem is how do you determine if someone is willfully ignorant, incapable of learning that skill, or has just never been put in a situation where they needed said skill.
You don’t have to determine it. They make it painfully, painfully obvious.