Quote (sirthom @ Dec 28 2021 06:37am)
The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.
-Neal Stephenson
You can't say something overtly bigoted and then appeal to intelligence, bigotry and intelligence contradict each other.
When otherwise intelligent people are being racist or bigoted, they are not using their intellect.
It is like growing up in a house with your dad allergic to cats. You're going to hate cats too. I imagine that is what being racist is like, hating cats because your dad is allergic.
Even the intelligent racists here contradict themselves, look at Goomshill, he states that the small minority of people who are unvaccinated cannot possibly be causing all these problems with our healthcare system, then goes and says a small minority of people are responsible for all crime in America without a sense of irony. This is profoundly stupid in an otherwise intelligent person. In this way, again, bigoty is contraindicated by intelligence.