You just shouldn’t say it at all. Unless they really are 100% 0 variance, not one in a million people with their brains will learn it trying their hardest you shouldn’t say this in public because it might damage their chances. Stupid is especially bad because it’s more general than you need to be. If someone has a brain that has some poor cognitive abilities, but others that are normal or good (specifically, I am talking about almost everyone) they shouldn’t be told they are stupid for doing below average in some area because stupid is a general term.. “Stupidness” is often limited to a particular area.
When is it an advantage to the person being talked about to hear that they are fundamentally incapable of doing something over hearing that it is not worth their trying to do it?
Also, stupid and genetically disadvantaged are not synonyms.
What makes you think the anti-PC crowd is low-status? That doesn’t ring a bell. I have no strong belief either way.
also, do you really think this is an accurate reflection of reality? “because they are unwilling to learn basic social skills.” It’s fine if you just wanted to have a go, but X is experiencing negative outcome Y “because they are unwilling to learn” is much more often claimed than is true. It’s just so convenient and just world-ey. Also, “social skills” may in this case actually consist solely of deference to majority opinion.
Where I come from, being overltly PC is low-status. Where I live now, being anti-PC is low status. In both places, unsurprisingly, people think their own attitudes are normal.
You just shouldn’t say it at all. Unless they really are 100% 0 variance, not one in a million people with their brains will learn it trying their hardest you shouldn’t say this in public because it might damage their chances. Stupid is especially bad because it’s more general than you need to be. If someone has a brain that has some poor cognitive abilities, but others that are normal or good (specifically, I am talking about almost everyone) they shouldn’t be told they are stupid for doing below average in some area because stupid is a general term.. “Stupidness” is often limited to a particular area.
When is it an advantage to the person being talked about to hear that they are fundamentally incapable of doing something over hearing that it is not worth their trying to do it?
Also, stupid and genetically disadvantaged are not synonyms.
What makes you think the anti-PC crowd is low-status? That doesn’t ring a bell. I have no strong belief either way.
also, do you really think this is an accurate reflection of reality? “because they are unwilling to learn basic social skills.” It’s fine if you just wanted to have a go, but X is experiencing negative outcome Y “because they are unwilling to learn” is much more often claimed than is true. It’s just so convenient and just world-ey. Also, “social skills” may in this case actually consist solely of deference to majority opinion.
Where I come from, being overltly PC is low-status. Where I live now, being anti-PC is low status. In both places, unsurprisingly, people think their own attitudes are normal.