To people complaining “you’ll never convince me with that attitude” when they get mocked for saying purposefully ignorant shit: We’re not trying to convince you. We’re trying to mock you, for being ignorant, to convince everyone else that purposeful ignorance deserves mockery.
If you come with racist or sexist or transphobic or anti-science nonsense, you don’t become some reclamation project who must now be convinced of anything. You’ve proven yourself unworthy of the effort. You become an object lesson on how to deal with toxicity and ignorance.
Assholes of the world: convincing you that bad things are bad and good things are good is far less necessary than you think. Now shut up while we talk about you.
I want to make a world where purposeful ignorance is treated as the problem of the purposefully ignorant, rather than the problem of those their purposeful ignorance is meant to harm.
I want to make a world where the response to purposeful ignorance is the correct one: scorn.
I want to make a world where the response to purposeful ignorance is the correct one: scorn.
Not to assholes at parties I’m not.
Luckily I tend to go to cool parties at which I am unbelievably cool.¹
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¹ cargo shorts, dad jokes
Luckily I tend to go to cool parties at which I am unbelievably cool.¹
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¹ cargo shorts, dad jokes
https://twitter.com/smsteve4/status/1382689461163687944
The people telling me this thread isn’t effective at changing their minds are pretty funny in a way.
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