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Originally Posted by Rekna
There is a big difference in being ignorant and willfully ignorant.
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Really?
What are the consequences of both? I don't think in the end there is a difference. If a person is ignorant of a spouse having an affair, and another person is willfully ignorant, what is the difference? Or, how are you defining "willfully ignorant?
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When I don't understand something people are talking about on this forum I just lurk and hope to pick stuff up. What I don't do is make shit up or push something that I know is likely false.
Over the last year there have been many willfully ignorant positions taken by conservatives in the main stream. Here are a few of them:
Obama is a terrorist, Obama is not a US citizen, Obama's suicide bill, Obama wants to teach my kid how to have sex, Obama had a gay orgy (i'm seeing a pattern here)
The right has so much hatred in them that they don't care how false something is they will preach it like fact because it fits their position. That is willful ignorance.
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I do not dispute there are people who do what you suggest. However, I do not think conservatives are more or less guilty of this than liberals.