Difference between revisions of "Deliberate ignorance"
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* I'm not aware of that! (without admitting a failure to look) | * I'm not aware of that! (without admitting a failure to look) | ||
* I've never seen that in the [[New York Times]]! | * I've never seen that in the [[New York Times]]! | ||
| + | * That's not what it said in the [[Encyclopedia Britannica]]! | ||
* I've never heard my [[public school]] teacher say that! | * I've never heard my [[public school]] teacher say that! | ||
* Let's talk about something else! | * Let's talk about something else! | ||
Revision as of 02:20, February 25, 2008
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[1]
- 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 New York Times!
- That's not what it said in the Encyclopedia Britannica!
- I've never heard my public school teacher say that!
- Let's talk about something else!
- I'm not interested in that!
