stupidism

English

Etymology

From stupid +‎ -ism.

Noun

stupidism (countable and uncountable, plural stupidisms)

1. (countable) A stupid utterance, act, or process.
   • 1889, Stephen Maybell, Civilization Civilized, Or The Process of Nationalization, page 218:

     No; we have no such ancient stupidisms.

   • 1908, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, “Outlines of Mahāyāna Buddhism”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 61, page 887:

     Sophistry is not the exact name for such jokes: stupidism would do.

   • 2001, Christian Cook, Broken Eggshells, page 141:

     My name is Bob, Bob Stannell, so where you get flaming 'Mr. Robert' from I do not know. Must be some stupid Welshism. . .or some kind of Welsh stupidism...one and the same really.

   • 2013, James MacDonald, Authentic: Developing the Disciplines of a Sincere Faith:

     Now cronies may reve in all these kind of, honestly, "stupidisms,” yet they are really nonsense.

   • 2016, Tim Toterhi, The Amazing and Somewhat Sarcastic Tad, page 58:

     Once they arrive, I will be able to effectively bitch about every idiotic stupidism that people are scared to discuss among friends.

2. (uncountable) A stance of willful ignorance, anti-intellectualism, and/or stupidity; the embracing of stupidity.
   • 1962, Victor Rine, The Case of Citizen Solomon Urquel, page 158:

     He had now become one of the thousands, millions, smarting under plain stupidism passing for Americanism.

   • 1967, Victor Rine, The War of Two Giant Ghosts, page 19:

     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?

   • 2001, Michael Graham, The Dumbest Generation:

     All I am saying is that, as democrats, our enemy is no longer German Fascism or Soviet Communism but American Stupidism, the idea that stupid people participating in the democratic process is actually a good thing.

   • 2017, Harmon Leon, Ted Rall, Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America, page 6:

     Not that these two mavericks of right and left weren't forced to breathe the sludgy water of stupidism through their previously pure gills.

   • 2020, Weixiao Wei, An Overview of Chinese Translation Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century:

     Still another example demonstrating the pioneering and innovative nature of Western translation theory, according to Liu (1989), was the 18th century Hermeneutics rebellion against the 'Stupidism' of the Middle Ages, in particular, the German Romanticists who refused to accept the prescriptive interpretation of the Bible given by the Vatican and viggorously pursued the original meanings of the Holy Scripture.

   • 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 61:

     The knotweed of stupidism can sow deleterious ignorance of the past.

3. (uncountable, rare) Discrimination against stupid people.
   • 2020, Jon Robins, Ian Tinny, Bernie Sanders, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro & Other Socialists, page 383:

     "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, or criminals.

   • 2023, Christina Antioch, Etienne de la Boetie2, Robert L. Peters, HITLER: do you self-identify the same as Hitler?:

     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, Risha Grant, Be Better Than Your BS, page 256:

     Yet she has consistently striven to focus on love, and made it her mission to use her passion, persistence, knowledge, and experience to dismantle racism, sexism, classism, and plain old stupidism— including her own.