“‘Derp’ is a term borrowed from the cartoon ‘South Park’ that has achieved wide currency among people I talk to, because it’s useful shorthand for an all-too-obvious feature of the modern intellectual landscape: people who keep saying the same thing no matter how much evidence accumulates that it’s completely wrong.”
—Paul Krugman, columnist, “Fighting the Derp,” The New York Times, June 8, 2015. Note: This was pre-Trump.
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