Words Mean Things: “Cultist”

cultistn – In social media political discourse:

1) anyone who holds views different from yours with a degree of certainty equal to or greater than that with which you hold your own;
2) one who, having been informed of your disagreement with his obviously false views, stubbornly clings to them instead of immediately adopting your objectively true positions like any reasonable person would do;
3) someone who persists in obtaining information from sources you find questionable, even after you’ve made known your own disapproval of those sources;
4) a person who dares to question the authority of experts – especially those experts you know to be infallible;
5) an individual who, having considered the facts and arguments for himself, has anathematized himself by coming to independent conclusions different from the accepted consensus to which you sensibly adhere.