A thing to note is that it’s socially okay to call people we dislike stupid because our society is naturally intellectually ableist. We are saying that a person has reached their incorrect views because they’re mentally handicapped, rather than pointing to other reasons for their intellectual failings.
At the same time, we’ve grown up in this environment and it’s difficult to remove that kind of language without some habits to replace it.
A thing to note is that it’s socially okay to call people we dislike stupid because our society is naturally intellectually ableist. We are saying that a person has reached their incorrect views because they’re mentally handicapped, rather than pointing to other reasons for their intellectual failings.
At the same time, we’ve grown up in this environment and it’s difficult to remove that kind of language without some habits to replace it.