Deliberate ignorance

Deliberate ignorance is the practice of refusing to consider or discuss logic or evidence disproving ideologically motivated positions. Examples include:

• Democrats refusing to acknowledge Barack Obama's appeal to unpatriotic donors and supporters
• materialists refuse to address the impossibility of material explanation for migration and homing
• evolutionists refuse to address the lack of a plausible evolutionary path for the whale
• liberals refuse to address how socialism destroys productivity
• abortionists refuse to address the undisclosed harm to the mothers who have abortions
• Advocates of the global warming theory refuse to consider any scientific evidence which shows that natural causes have always had a greater effect on terrestrial air temperature than human activity.

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Common expressions of deliberate ignorance include:

• I'm not aware of that! (without admitting a failure to look)
• I've never seen that in the Bible!
• I've never heard my homeschool teacher daddy say that!
• If you believe that, I bet you oppose school prayer! 95% chance!
• Let's talk about something else!
• I'm not interested in that, because it might go against my preconceived notions, and I don't like going outside my comfort zone!