When trying to educate newbs as you call them, I think the word Idiots is unhelpful. I was taught that very thing as gospel, in high school. I graduated in 1982. Yes I went to public school. That's where my parents sent me. It's not like I had a choice.
Calling people names for learning what they were taught is not helpful to the cause.
Though Christ called the Pharisees white-washed tombs, vipers, sons of satan.
And here in the American Southwest, it has long been a tradition to call a spade a spade.
Seems a little hard to get beyond the basics if the basics are grossly distorted & lied about.