stupidism

Noun

stupidism (countable and uncountable, plural stupidisms)

1. (countable) A stupid utterance, act, or process.
   • No; we have no such ancient stupidisms.1889, Stephen Maybell, Civilization Civilized, Or The Process of Nationalization, page 218
   • Sophistry is not the exact name for such jokes: stupidism would do.1908, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, “Outlines of Mahāyāna Buddhism”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 61, page 887
2. (uncountable) A stance of wilful ignorance, anti-intellectualism, and/or stupidity; the embracing of stupidity.
   • He had now become one of the thousands, millions, smarting under plain stupidism passing for Americanism.1962, Victor Rine, The Case of Citizen Solomon Urquel, page 158
   • How explain this strange phenomenon, stark mass stupidism and widespread witcheries sprawling over the land like a black Leviathan, yet which was studded with so many schools and great colleges and universities?1967, Victor Rine, The War of Two Giant Ghosts, page 19
3. (rare, uncountable) Discrimination against stupid people.
   • "Racism discrimination" accusations are often mistakenly made by people who are actually victims of stupidism, ignorantism, rudism, smellism, drunkism, drugism, violentism, or criminalism. People often discriminate against others who are stupid, ignorant, rude, smally, drunk, drug addled, violent...2020, Jon Robins, Ian Tinny, Bernie Sanders, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro & Other Socialists, page 383
   • He has already helped refute “racism” by publicly demonstrating that many BLMers are discriminated against because of “stupidism” (widespread bias against stupidity), not racism.2023, Christina Antioch, Etienne de la Boetie2, Robert L. Peters, HITLER: do you self-identify the same as Hitler?