A professor claimed that calling someone a “nerd” or a “geek” should be a hate crime because the terms can be used to bully intelligent people.

“Very high-IQ people are a minority group in society that are very much ignored, and they are not understood and are largely neglected,” said east London psychology professor Sonja Falck. “So, it is the case that individuals with very high IQ very often are bullied at school, for example. They are a target for being bullied, often quite viciously.”