That low regard in the history has change to hate, persecution and qualified vote, to mention a few. Specially when not saying “they are wrong” but “they are incapable of thinking”.
So per se both a bad thing, but I personally regard such expressions as dangerous for the long term democracy
I respect your opinion, and agree that democracy is critical.
"Democracy is the worst system, other than the rest". Ideally we would have an LSAT-like exam as a qualifier to vote, but any kind of testing to be allowed to vote would be manipulated eventually by corrupt administrations. Therefore, the only remedy to an ignorant society's decisionmaking is quality public education and broad suffrage.
So per se both a bad thing, but I personally regard such expressions as dangerous for the long term democracy