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.
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
The people telling me this thread isn’t effective at changing their minds are pretty funny in a way.

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16 Apr
It's time to completely and permanently politically destroy the ideology that equates the right to enact a gun massacre with freedom, that equates police riots with freedom, that equates racist police murder with freedom, that equates their assortments of bigotries with freedom.
It's not that our world is broken. It's that there are people committed to breaking our world, and we know who they are.

They're the people who defend every problems, and oppose event the slightest step toward any solutions.
They're the people that insist the problems aren't real, and were the fault of the victims.

They're the people who threaten violence at the hint of a solution, claiming that the end of the problems infringe their whites—sorry, their rights.
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The reason this matters is, the ignorance we are up against is *purposeful*. It has design. It has intent. It has goals.

By engaging with purposeful ignorance, the goals of purposeful ignorance are achieved.

So, we mustn't engage. We should simply mock and dismiss it.
The goals of purposeful ignorance are toxic. The intentions are to harm others, in order to achieve a perceived personal benefit.

It's worth listing these goals. There are three main ones.
THE FIRST GOAL OF PURPOSEFUL IGNORANCE

To reinforce a reality, in which people with ignorant, toxic, and harmful ideas and intentions must perpetually be debated, which subtly insinuates that in matters of public policy they are the people whose permission must be sought
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I'd say their motives in no way exonerated them.
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I think this is quite possibly true. It's certainly very profitable for him. There's clearly a big market for Nazi propaganda and he's filling it.

My point is, he's just as much a Nazi if he doesn't believe it as if he does believe it.
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-Kurt Vonnegut, "Mother Night"
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What this thread reveals to me is how, for many people, police corruption can't ever get so bad that they'll stop supporting it.

Which suggests that they always knew what policing in America was, and want it this way. They merely preferred when they could pretend to not know.
Awareness of wrong carries a clear moral mandate to admit it or reject it. Admitting it carries a clear moral mandate to help fix it, or refuse to. Agreeing to fix it means paying the cost of repair.

I'd observe a lot of people don't want to know, because they don't want to pay.
This is why conservatives have set their sights against awareness itself.

Opposing "woke culture" is a tell.
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