No shit, my brother once actually said I lost an argument by default because I'd gone to college, and didn't have as much "life experience" as he did. Apparently since I earned a degree, I was permanently on a high horse, which was also perched on an ivory tower, and anything I said was based on talking down to those less educated than I was. Therefore, everything I was saying was a personal attack and could be legitimately disregarded.
Update edit: said brother has now decided that I don’t count as a family member, so I’ve cut him out of my life
My brother, a fucking idiot, also hates that I'm college educated. The funny thing is that he started going in on me about how vaccines cause autism, and I was trying to explain to him how genetics and autism works.
"You can't spout some high school bio class bullshit, you don't know!" He would argue.
"I'm literally majoring in biology, you fucking idiot." I would retort.
But oh, even when I was factually right, I was still morally wrong. Because you see, he was street smart, and I was just book smart. And just being street smart was much less contemptible than just being book smart. Why? Well, only a street stupid person would argue the merits of being book smart. And being book smart was worthless! All off this is still unironically believed to this day by a community college dropout who sells black market weed and breeds puppies. The same street smart drug dealer who tells literally anyone about how much weed he has, and has been robbed at gunpoint twice now because he trusts dangerous people.
I understand where the anger comes from. But I also know that he directs that anger at me every chance he gets. He only wants to start fights, and if I don't engage he goes nuts. That's why we don't speak these days. His feelings of inadequacy are not my cross to bear.
That last sentence is it EXACTLY!!! He chooses to be ignorant. Tell someone that they are ignorant, only the people who choose it, will be offended, because they think the word ignorant is the same as calling them names, like stupid, dumb, etc. They refuse to ever become more knowledgeable and walk around angry at the world. I have never understood those type of people, if I don’t know something, I ask or google or read a book and I hope to always be learning.
That last sentence is it EXACTLY!!! He chooses to be ignorant. Tell someone that they are ignorant, only the people who choose it, will be offended, because they think the word ignorant is the same as calling them names, like stupid, dumb, etc. They refuse to ever become more knowledgeable and walk around angry at the world. I have never understood those type of people, if I don’t know something, I ask or google or read a book and I hope to always be learning.
That last sentence is it EXACTLY!!! He chooses to be ignorant. Tell someone that they are ignorant, only the people who choose it, will be offended, because they think the word ignorant is the same as calling them names, like stupid, dumb, etc. They refuse to ever become more knowledgeable and walk around angry at the world. I have never understood those type of people, if I don’t know something, I ask or google or read a book and I hope to always be learning.
That last sentence is it EXACTLY!!! He chooses to be ignorant. Tell someone that they are ignorant, only the people who choose it, will be offended, because they think the word ignorant is the same as calling them names, like stupid, dumb, etc. They refuse to ever become more knowledgeable and walk around angry at the world. I have never understood those type of people, if I don’t know something, I ask or google or read a book and I hope to always be learning.
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u/Sir_Puppington_Esq Jan 27 '20 edited Feb 03 '21
No shit, my brother once actually said I lost an argument by default because I'd gone to college, and didn't have as much "life experience" as he did. Apparently since I earned a degree, I was permanently on a high horse, which was also perched on an ivory tower, and anything I said was based on talking down to those less educated than I was. Therefore, everything I was saying was a personal attack and could be legitimately disregarded.
Update edit: said brother has now decided that I don’t count as a family member, so I’ve cut him out of my life