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There’s nothing inherently wrong with having low intelligence. Sure, the person may have their fair share of difficulties, particularly when it comes to solving complex problems or managing daily tasks, but a lack of brainpower isn’t morally offensive.
It only becomes an issue when the individual in question comes off as obnoxious about their intellectual flaws. Like when they use TikTok as their primary source of information, refuse to hear other opinions, or the many other examples people shared in this recent Reddit thread.
If you think there are other things worth mentioning that aren’t on this list, feel free to add them in the comments below.
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#2
Anyone that uses TikTok as their primary source of information and doesn’t try to look further into any subject.
Rick Murray 14 hours ago
I have fibre, Netflix has no trouble. TikTok, on the other hand (like when embedded on this site), seems incapable of more than 4~5 seconds without the little spinny symbol of inadequacy. I consider it to be effective self censorship.
#3
When their type of humor is basically just bullying others.
Luke || Kira (he/she) 8 hours ago
"Hahaha I have very ~dark humor~ and I'm ~fluent in sarcasm~ so people are often offended by my jokes" No, you're just a humorless, unlikable POS.
#4
Having a loud car and revving it down residential roads at night.
#5
Not being able to understand that there is usually a lot of nuance in complicated topics. Believing pseudoscience over actual science is also a big one!
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 14 hours ago (edited)
Sëx being binary, gender always matching sëx, gender not being significant, genitals being the ONLY decider of sëx and gender. Basically reducing the complex and near infinite variety of humanity and reducing it to having a pee-pee or a foo-foo.
#6
When they try to make a point by just repeating themselves louder and louder.
#8
When they can't admit they're wrong about something small. Not the big stuff. Everyone struggles with that. But the little things like mispronouncing a word or remembering a date wrong. If you can't just say oh my bad and move on, that tells me you're more interested in being right than being accurate. Smart people are wrong all the time. They just don't stay wrong.
#9
“I don’t read books”, specifically, by people who can read and say it as a point of pride.
#10
They still support MAGA and the "president".
#12
When they only talk about things that relate directly to them. Where they show no curiosity or desire to learn from the perspective of others.
#13
They lack curiosity.
#14
Re-writing reality so they’re always the victim: “I didn’t say that!”.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 13 hours ago
Or "You know that's not what I meant!" I get that one a lot from my mother and sister.
#15
Playing music on phone speaker on public transportation.
Grant Slade 11 hours ago
Also, businesses that, for some reason, feel they have to have music going all the time, often unpleasant, often far too loud. Nothing will drive me out of a shop, mall, coffee shop etc quicker than this
#16
Believing in flat earth, moon landing conspiracies. Also refusing to look at evidence and change their ideas.
#17
They took things personally and start to get angry when someone else has a different opinion.
#18
They are unable to understand that personal experience is not viable argument for wider and nuanced problems.
There was politician who literally said she does not believe poverty exists because "I was from poor family and we always had huge Christmas meals".
Rick Murray 14 hours ago
There is a British politician (Suella Braverman) that called being homeless "a lifestyle choice".
#19
All those flags on the back of their pickup truck...
Geoffrey Scott 7 hours ago
Am contemplating getting an American flag window sticker for the rear window of my truck..placed upside down to signify I feel our nation is in distress.
#20
Inability to understand that others hold a different point of view.
Luke || Kira (he/she) 8 hours ago
On one hand, yes. On the other hand, I'm clearly NOT willing to "understand different points of view" that, for example, involve treating certain groups of people as subhuman. IMO the world started going to $hit when we lost the ability to differentiate between "a valid point of view that deserves to be heard" and "hateful / anti-intellectual bull$hit that needs to be curb-stomped before it spreads".
#21
Bigotry.
The vast majority of bigots are that way because they’re too dumb to understand any nuance or escape their ignorance.
Gold Monkey 16 hours ago
It's often because people like to feel better than others. Imagine being a poor redneck. Who are they going to feel superior to? They have to believe that brown people or gay people or women are inferior to them, in other to not feel like losers.
#23
“I asked ChatGPT, and it said…”.
Rick Murray 14 hours ago
Or worse, when their text begins "As a large language model I cannot....." followed by a chunk of text that makes a point and then repeats it three times with slightly different, overly friendly, wording.
#24
Being militantly religious.
#26
Anyone who says "That's ***my*** truth.".
#27
Not being open to discussions and thinking their opinion is the only right thing.
#28
When someone can’t or refuses to comprehend how their or others actions can cascade into different consequences.
#29
Gambling is their investment strategy.
#30
Standing outside target at 3am awaiting to fight in the store for the newest junk trend.
#31
Always looking down on others.
#32
I use ai for everything.
Bartlet for world domination 10 hours ago
I'm starting to lose friends. One says they know AI doesn't understand anything, but continues to present its 'ideas' as if it does, the other is slipping into some kind of psychosis where they can't talk about anything but the medical breakthrough their sycophantic LLM convinced them they made.. Both are reasonably smart. I don't know what to do.
#33
Using big words, but incorrectly.
Ridiculously loyal to a brand or company.
Schwurbler - conspiracy theorists.
Kathrin Pukowsky 14 hours ago
The government is doing enough despicable shít that it should be held accountable for in plain sight. Focus on that and concern yourself with conspiracies later.
#34
I don’t know if it’s associated with IQ, but flat earthers.
#35
Wearing a bright red MAGA hat in public is usually a good sign.
Those stupid hanging “balls” on an oversized pickup as well.
#36
Low intelligence is not the same as poorly educated. Someone can be extremely intelligent but not well educated, therefore their grammar, use of certain phrases may not come across as intelligent. I work with a broad variety of the public on a daily basis. For me, I can tell if somebody legitimately is low intelligence or has some cognitive impairment because it seems like they’re trying very hard to understand something but just can’t. I’ll explain something several times and I’ll walk away knowing they are going to try their best but only a little bit is going to be absorbed. I’ve also noticed low intelligence people seem to be attracted to other low intelligence people and vice versa with people of higher intelligence.
#37
Using the word "literally" so much that if they stop they'll drown in their own dimness.
Auntriarch 9 hours ago
There's nothing like doing a full transcript of an interview where you have to transcribe literally (no joke) every vocalisation, to make you realise how much people burble. Every umm, err, you know, well, uh huh, so, like, etc.
#38
Instantly deciding someone is of low intelligence. People socially present in all kinds of complicated ways based on how they process, culture, stress….
#39
When they refuse to listen or consider someone else's perspective during group meetings or projects.
#40
Talking over, not necessarily interrupting, your counter argument rather than waiting for you to finish so they can address the argument in its entirety.
#41
Being in public and being on a face time call watching a movie or listening to music with out head phones.
#42
When english is their first language and they can barely speak.
I don't mean people with disabilities or someone who has had a stroke. I mean fully functioning people that can't put five words together properly.
#43
Believing in pseudo-science
believing that price always correlates with quality.
#47
Homeopathy.
Beak Hookage 10 hours ago
Watched a documentary about that nonsense with my family once, and I still remember how the narrator explained that "this level of dilution is equal to one drop in an Olympic swimming pool" and I cluelessly remarked "how are you even supposed to drink that much water anyway?" The whole family lost it.
#48
Not knowing the difference between you're and your.
#49
Bragging about their IQ.
I am not you 8 hours ago
A man, in a local pub, bragged that he had taken a MENSA test, and got a high IQ score. "So I'm intelligent.,hi said " Did you have to take a test to find out, I asked. Because I don't need a test, because I know I'm intelligent. He got angry and mad at me.Then left 😅
#50
Calling it "World War Eleven".
#51
When I say I have ADHD and they instantly begin self diagnosing themselves because they’re always so messy and forgetful. But an ADHD radar works the same way as a gay-radar. I can spot them both from a mile away and I wouldn’t miss one right in front of me.
#52
Calling women "females".
General Anaesthesia 11 hours ago
Incels don't like to restrict themselves to one species of mammal.
#53
When they’re right even when they’re wrong. Accepting you were wrong in a debate is a sign of intelligence. Rejecting even the notion shows a lack thereof. You’re not standing up for what you believe in, you’re ignoring any evidence that disproves your original assessment.
#55
My mother's current bf says I'm stupid all the time. Says he's not stupid. He asks me a question, ignores my answers and asks my mother who says the same thing as me. He wants to calculate something, I give a mental answer. He ignores that and types it in a calculator, I was right.
TL;DR: People who ignore others, even after asking them for an answer!
#57
A pattern of bad choices, but blaming everything else. Complaining, but adding more to the bad choice pile. Never has an urge to learn. Asks questions about basic things even in topics or around hobbies they are interested in.
Rick Murray 14 hours ago
Somebody my mom once knew was sick of drunk loser boyfriends. My mom replied what did she expect picking up guys in bars? She.... couldn't understand mom's point. 🤦🏻♀️
#59
Their opinion is based on personal experience only. Anecdotal fallacies should be the easiest to avoid, I think.
#62
Someone that only read the headline but is pretending to have read the entire article.
Beak Hookage 10 hours ago
Just use AI to summarise the article so you don't have to waste valuable seconds you could be spending flicking through ten second reels on your phone!
#64
Constant Interruptions, not answering the question that was asked & answering with "but" and than.
#66
When they say they have "mensenkennis". Dutch for "I know how people work". I think: you don't even know yourself.
peace.
What do you think ?
Rtblast66 14 hours ago
The absolute adulation, adoration of celebrities and royals is missing from this
Rick Murray 14 hours ago
Because that might hit a little too close to home, especially given the near endless stories about a certain recent gala, or some random celebrity did something and the internet went nuts, blah blah blah. 😉
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Beak Hookage 10 hours ago
I didn't even know people were getting their "news" from Tiktok, but boy is that ominous.
Rtblast66 14 hours ago
The absolute adulation, adoration of celebrities and royals is missing from this
Rick Murray 14 hours ago
Because that might hit a little too close to home, especially given the near endless stories about a certain recent gala, or some random celebrity did something and the internet went nuts, blah blah blah. 😉
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 10 hours ago
I didn't even know people were getting their "news" from Tiktok, but boy is that ominous.
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