“There is nothing you can say that will change my mind. If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for everything. People believe what they believe and nothing can change that; nobody changes what they believe. This isn’t close-mindedness, it’s principle.” Where I come from, that’s called proud, deliberate ignorance. He wears it as a badge of honor and thinks it makes him principled.
He’s so insecure he HAS to be right on any and everything (regardless of reality, of which he is woefully ignorant) and will simply try to browbeat the person he’s talking to until they realize he’s retarded and give up. He can’t even contemplate definitions if they don’t already agree with his personal beliefs; he dismisses any such definitions as “political correctness,” regardless of how out of touch with reality his definition is. Bonus: he likes to complain that nobody will have any real discussions with him anymore, apparently because we’re all so stupid we can’t hope to defeat him.
Which brings me to another bit of worthlessness: he’s incapable of approaching any interaction as an exchange between equals. Conversation is supposed to be an exchange of information; we each hopefully learn something new and enrich our lives, if only by a minuscule amount. To him, all interactions are yet another in an endless series of pissing contests designed to make sure his ass is being properly kissed and that we all know we owe him the respect he’s incapable of earning. Trying to actually hold any but the shallowest conversations with someone like that is completely impossible; unless you agree with him 100%, you’re “disrespecting” him and it’s time for the browbeating to begin.
Other gems included “science ain’t exact, so don’t tell me any of that science stuff is evidence,” “you can’t get a Master’s degree in science because it ain’t real,” “science ain’t real because Einstein only used 10% of his brain; if he had used all of his brain, he would have put socks on,” and dismissing actual definitions as “political correctness,” including basic biology. You know, ridiculous unproven claims like children getting half their DNA from each parent; in this genius’s mind, a man plants a seed in a woman who just acts as the dirt it grows in. When I pointed out that isn’t how it works, he tried to claim I was “going too deep with this shit.” Yeah, how dare I “go too deep” and address actual reality instead of some dumbed-down version likely served up to him by a youth pastor.
In his tiny mind, there is also no such thing as a multi-racial person because “you is what your father is,” “multi-racial is just political correctness,” and “I ain’t never seen no ‘multi-racial’ line on a job application!” Well, no kidding: you only read the first two or three and checked your box before moving on to the rest of the page. When I asked what I was because I’m German, Gypsy, Irish and Native American, his response was “well, what’s your father?” When I said “everything on that list but Gypsy,” he got all bitter because apparently I wasn’t playing fair by pigeonholing everything for him.
The most ridiculous part: the whole time he had this smug, condescending “I’m educating you” manner only the proudly, deliberately ignorant can pull off. I wish I was making this up.
Now try to imagine an entire society based on this guy’s “principles.” Within a generation they’d be back to a pre-agricultural level of development. Forget science; it’s not real, so why should anyone take it seriously. Philosophy is “too deep,” and therefore to be eschewed. The closest thing to a legal system would be the biggest, meanest, loudest members of the tribe kicking people in the heads for failure to show proper respect. Women’s rights? Don’t make me laugh; they’re just dirt for guys to plant seeds in.