So... What "false insults" you find annoying?

FYI: A false insult is something that is NOT intended to insult another but still people take it as an insult for unknown reasons. (At least unknown reasons to me).

As for myself... There's two major ones I really dislike. The first one is "Ignorant/Ignorance"... Too many people take it as an insult, thinking it means stupid, but that is not true. Ignorance is lack of knowledge while Ignorant is a specific person with a lack of knowledge... Saying someone is Ignorant is really as bad as pointing out a typo/grammar mistake in their writing... FYI: You are pointing out a flaw. Plus the fact that everybody in this world is ignorant to something so it is only natural to be ignorant... So ye'h... I do get annoyed when people take that as an insult, especially when I'm just pointing something out and then explaining to them the knowledge they are lacking, thusly no longer making them ignorant to whatever subject it was...

The second one isn't really an insult but some people tend to take it negatively... It's the whole "That's a bias opinion!" type of thing, which I find extremely annoying... EVERY opinion in the world is bias and it is impossible to NOT have opinions so... everybody is bias. Though I should note that you can be extremely or calmly bias. Extreme is when you pretty much point out your side while calmly is where you try to hide it and try to work with both sides, though you are still bias as long you have a side.

Note: There are always at least THREE sides in opinions. The first two being "Red VS Blue" type of deal with the 3rd one being "Myself", if that makes any sense... I would lovely explain more if any asks.

Also... What do I mean about it being impossible to NOT have opinions? Well. You literally gotta have no sense, no feelings, etc to have no opinions which is impossible to live like so. (FYI: What you like to taste, feel, see, smell, etc are all opinions as well!)...

It's not really an unknown, but I know my personality is a bit grating IRL. I look down on people who think reading is for 'dorks' or 'nerds' and refuse to better their perceptions and understanding of the world. If a person is a native English speaker and can't understand what words like 'pragmatism' or 'enamoured' mean, I find them 'inferior' in a conversational spectrum. I can't help it, I just find it grating. I kind of blame Idiocracy, ever since seeing it I've had this fear society is getting dumber and those people are 'proof' of it.

One friend of mine (let's call her Amy), who studies psychology, said that she saw it as a pseudo science. This girl next to her (let's call her Laura), who also studies it was like, 'excuse me, but I find that really insulting since I want to get into psychology'. Then Laura asked Amy what she wanted to get into in Uni/work and she said Medicine (paediatrician), to which Laura was like 'that's not a science' then said the other sciences Amy studies - Chemistry and Biology - weren't sciences either. This was Year 11, by the way.

Not sure if that falls under false insults but I found it pretty annoying with how she reacted to Amy simply because she saw psychology as a pseudo-science. It's her opinion, after all. Though, I could just be annoyed since it was a friend getting some hostility.

I would describe this post as ignorant.

1. It may be true that the strict literal meaning of "ignorant" is just lacking knowledge. Nevertheless, the word has pejorative connotations, and is often used with those pejorative connotations in mind. An ignorant person is not merely someone lacking knowledge of some random bit of trivia, but someone who is uneducated or unlearned or generally deficient in knowledge on a wide range of matters.

2. Yes, there's an obvious sense in which the only opinion you can give is your own. That is not what people are complaining about when they say that an opinion is "biased". An accusation of bias is that the accused's view has been formed/maintained for the wrong sorts of reasons, and this results in a distorted/skewed perspective. Maybe "bias" is not quite the right word for this, according to its strict literal meaning; nevertheless, that is what it means when people talk about "biased opinions".

Ive trained martial arts over 20+ year now.. pisses me off when someone start to call me violence etc. never hurt anybody, well I had to have protect myself a few time but even then I was very gently.

1. True in some sense but honestly, I prefer using Ignorant when someone has a lack of knowledge in anything... And most people I know does so too. The rest think Ignorant means stupid... Well now got you and what you just said...

Though honestly, I prefer to stick to the most useful, common, and best definition of a word when it has more than one possible definition... Just me though.

In other words, we are both correct in a sense and to a point.

2. I know why people used it and really... I think we need to find another word for the extreme bad levels that you had mention. But whatever. Can't control that, I guess? I just dislike when people think bias is only for those extreme moments...

I hope all of that shortness makes sense...

The most common use of the word ignorant in my experience is as an insult, or at the very least condescension.

In what position am I to be infuriated over another's ignorant remarks? It's not like I know better. It's not like I am any better. Don't we all say some off-hand comment that occasionally feels like a [censored]-slap to another? I don't feel I can be mad at this behaviour (for lack of a better word) in others, since I'm often guilty of this very thing.