>“Nuh-uh, you’re stupid,”

You're acting in bad faith now, by trying to draw a parallel on how calling someone clueless (meaning lacking in certain knowledge on the topic) is the same as calling someone stupid which is a blatant insult I did not use.

> meaning lacking in certain knowledge on the topic

Clueless has a pejorative connotation. I am struggling to imagine how anyone would read a comment like:

> because most people are as clueless as you about the reality of how things work

and not interpret it to be pejorative.