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Help me out guys. You are all smarty smart people. I know you are!
OK so in formulating a response to a statement in a discussion in my head, I hit a bump cause I was forced to use a word that I KNEW was not correct. It was a similar embodiment of what I wanted to say, but overall ot carried too much other social and historical baggage to convey the essence of the point I was making. Does that make sense? I don't want the word associated with it's most used historical application. So without directly prefacing the statement with "I'm gonna use a word but you have to apply it from the standard of dictionary entry number two instead of dictionary entry number one", which would just be stupid lol.
So here we go. Absolutism is the word I was trying to use. But absolutisms first meaning is " The principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government".
Absolutisms second meaning is "any theory holding that values, principles, etc., are absolute and not relative, dependent, or changeable".
But that isn't even 100% what I mean.
So I will put it into a situation.
Person A takes the position that grass is yellow. Person B takes the position that grass is purple.
Person A then ridicules Person B for not sharing the same position. It's irrelevant about the grass. What I am talking about is the act of ridiculing someone simply for not agreeing. The argument and reasons and every aspect of the details are totally unimportant. Just the fact that one does not share the same position warrants attack.
I know discrimination could fit that, but I also know there is word I can't grab out of my head. And that is driving me crazy and that is why I had to make this pointless post! LOL
But hell it's my site and I can make pointless posts anytime I want so BLEH!
Help me out.
I like the term "closed-minded son-of-a-bitch" works for me in general. Others that may apply would be unbending, judgemental,stringently opinionated, or just plain old opinionated, which in general is a statement well used for someone who cannot see anyone else's point and spouts nonstop about theirs. Oh, by the way if I call you tonight don't be surprised, if I don't call you tonight, don't be surprised!
Love ya,
Nichole
I think the term you're looking for would be some flavor of INTOLERANCE. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/intolerance
I know what you're saying and I don't know the right word. It's kind of on the outside edge of the description of some other words, kind of on the edge of intolerance. If your roomate likes country music and you hate it you can tolerate the music or not tolerate the music, you might ridicule your roomate for playing it. On the other hand if someone 500 miles away plays country music you can still ridicule the music but since the music isn't in ear range you are not in a position to tolerate or not tolerate the music.
It might be a kind of smugness in thinking that you have the only correct information. So you might ridicule someone who believes the earth is flat or someone who has a different belief about a higher being.
It might be on the edge of being opinionated.
Discrimination doesn't seem to fit either. Discrimination is about making choices.
A lot of words that we see as negative are really not, it depends on context.
If we refuse to buy a used car that has rust spots, we are a discriminating buyer. If we refuse to buy a car because of the color of the previous owner, that discrimination is bigotry.
If we advertise a job and get 1,000 resumes it would take 5 years of 1 hour interviews to see all the people. So we prejudge based on the resume that the people with experience will be better for the job than those without. We might be wrong in that the person who is absolutely the best might not have the experience but we take the chance on missing that person to avoid all the interviews. On the other hand if we look at the names and try to decide who's black, white, asian, Italian, English, ... and use that as a way to find some criteria that's a completely different story.
I'm gonna go with Felix on this one. Intolerance is right there but it's not a slam dunk.
This answer..."It might be a kind of smugness in thinking that you have the only correct information. "
Is precisely what I am talking about. If there isn't a word for describing just that type of smugness that you have the only correct information then there damn well should be.