stupidism

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A stupid utterance, act, or process.

   • No; we have no such ancient stupidisms.
   • Sophistry is not the exact name for such jokes: stupidism would do.
   • My name is Bob, Bob Stannell, so where you get flaming 'Mr. Robert' from I do not know. Must be some stupid Welshism. . .or some kind of Welsh stupidism...one and the same really.
2. 2

   A stance of willful ignorance, anti-intellectualism, and/or stupidity

   A stance of willful ignorance, anti-intellectualism, and/or stupidity; the embracing of stupidity.

   • He had now become one of the thousands, millions, smarting under plain stupidism passing for Americanism.
   • How explain this strange phenomenon, stark mass stupidism and widespread witcheries sprawling over the land like a black Leviathan, yet which was studded with so many schools and great colleges and universities?
   • All I am saying is that, as democrats, our enemy is no longer German Fascism or Soviet Communism but American Stupidism, the idea that stupid people participating in the democratic process is actually a good thing.
3. 3

   Discrimination against stupid people.

   • He has already helped refute “racism” by publicly demonstrating that many BLMers are discriminated against because of “stupidism” (widespread bias against stupidity), not racism.
   • Yet she has consistently striven to focus on love, and made it her mission to use her passion, persistence, knowledge, and experience to dismantle racism, sexism, classism, and plain old stupidism— including her own.

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