Nerd Arrogance
noun
The preemptively assumptive nature of being smarter than the party they’re taking to no matter the subject.
DISCLAIMER: This is a specific genre of person whose nerd status is the permission they give to themselves to enable their own malicious behavior. This is not a critique of nerds as a whole.
This allows for critique of their media or worldview to be “just not getting it”.
It is the self identification of the “nerd” status that allows for them to see themself as being “misunderstood” instead of being correctly critiqued.
It, in its entirety, is entitlement. Nerd Arrogance is a shade of it. It’s like entitlement to the feeling of being right. It’s like being right has congealed with their sense of self. They interact with the world as if they themself being smart is a stated fact.
It’s this ideology that allows for nice guys and incel forums. and its correspondence with the rise in right wing populism leads me to believe that this is the same entitlement that drove manifest destiny westward.
That inability to digest critique at its core is gluttony. Gluttony to exist within comfort. Gluttony to be saved from facing yourself.
That is what white supremacy at its core is. Gluttony of a group of people to be saved from facing itself.
