#willfulignorance — Public Fediverse posts
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What was the crime? To complain. What was the crime? To suffer. Let misery hide and be silent, otherwise it is lèse-majesté.
[Quel était l’attentat? se plaindre. Quel était le crime? souffrir. Que la misère se cache et se taise, sinon elle est lèse-majesté.]Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French writer, journalist, human rights activist, politician
The Man Who Laughs [L’Homme qui rit; The Laughing Man; By Order of the King], Part 2, Book 9, ch. 2 (.2.9.2) (1869) [tr. Lavelle (2003)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/85062/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugo #victorhugo #themanwholaughs #complaint #coverup #establishment #lesemajeste #misery #power #protest #suffering #treason #willfulignorance
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What was the crime? To complain. What was the crime? To suffer. Let misery hide and be silent, otherwise it is lèse-majesté.
[Quel était l’attentat? se plaindre. Quel était le crime? souffrir. Que la misère se cache et se taise, sinon elle est lèse-majesté.]Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French writer, journalist, human rights activist, politician
The Man Who Laughs [L’Homme qui rit; The Laughing Man; By Order of the King], Part 2, Book 9, ch. 2 (.2.9.2) (1869) [tr. Lavelle (2003)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/85062/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugo #victorhugo #themanwholaughs #complaint #coverup #establishment #lesemajeste #misery #power #protest #suffering #treason #willfulignorance
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"Facing what Secretary of State Marco Rubio will describe as a resurgence of "far left political terrorism," according to a State Department official, Rubio will convene diplomats from around the world in Washington on Thursday to discuss a response."
The Trump Administration chooses to ignore the danger from violent right-wing extremists and White identity terrorists:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/rubio-convene-meeting-far-left-080025270.html
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"Facing what Secretary of State Marco Rubio will describe as a resurgence of "far left political terrorism," according to a State Department official, Rubio will convene diplomats from around the world in Washington on Thursday to discuss a response."
The Trump Administration chooses to ignore the danger from violent right-wing extremists and White identity terrorists:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/rubio-convene-meeting-far-left-080025270.html
#TrumpAdministration = #WillfulIgnorance. #politics #NationalSecurity -
A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-03-24), The Rambler, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20042…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #advice #awareness #counsel #education #error #information #mistake #reminder #teaching #willfulignorance
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“History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.” — Hilary Mantel, historical novelist
* Paraquat, Parkinson's Disease and Agnotology (The Deliberate Production of Ignorance)
"Nearly 60 years ago, a chemical company found that skin exposure to very high doses of its weedkiller paraquat caused “weakness and incoordination” in rabbits. Large amounts of the herbicide, which is used on corn, cotton, and vineyards, caused some mice and rats in its labs to develop a stiff gait or tremors. A decade later, an autopsy of a farm worker exposed to paraquat showed “degenerative change” in the “cells of the substantia nigra,” a pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease." >>
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.29371* "Australia's chemical regulator has approved the restricted use of the controversial herbicide paraquat, which has previously been linked to Parkinson's disease...The regulator's review of the herbicide has been underway since 1997...The decision comes weeks after Australia's top neurologists said they had been ignored by the chemical regulator." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2026-06-23/apvma-chemical-regulator-decision-paraquat-herbicide-parkinsons/106775018
#pesticides #agnotology #WillfulIgnorance #Paraquat #regulation #APVMA #food #health #IndustrialAgriculture #weedkillers #farmers #science -
“History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.” — Hilary Mantel, historical novelist
* Paraquat, Parkinson's Disease and Agnotology (The Deliberate Production of Ignorance)
"Nearly 60 years ago, a chemical company found that skin exposure to very high doses of its weedkiller paraquat caused “weakness and incoordination” in rabbits. Large amounts of the herbicide, which is used on corn, cotton, and vineyards, caused some mice and rats in its labs to develop a stiff gait or tremors. A decade later, an autopsy of a farm worker exposed to paraquat showed “degenerative change” in the “cells of the substantia nigra,” a pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease." >>
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.29371* "Australia's chemical regulator has approved the restricted use of the controversial herbicide paraquat, which has previously been linked to Parkinson's disease...The regulator's review of the herbicide has been underway since 1997...The decision comes weeks after Australia's top neurologists said they had been ignored by the chemical regulator." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2026-06-23/apvma-chemical-regulator-decision-paraquat-herbicide-parkinsons/106775018
#pesticides #agnotology #WillfulIgnorance #Paraquat #regulation #APVMA #food #health #IndustrialAgriculture #weedkillers #farmers #science -
A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82789…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #antiintellectualism #booklearning #books #dolt #dunce #education #ignorance #knowledge #learning #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82789…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #antiintellectualism #booklearning #books #dolt #dunce #education #ignorance #knowledge #learning #willfulignorance
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"No point learning how to do x because AI can do it for me faster, why waste my time?" - is a really frustrating thing to hear when trying to teach people. Even if you want to use these "tools" you will use them better if you know what you are doing. Knowing how to use a coping saw means you are better at using a jigsaw or scrollsaw.
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"No point learning how to do x because AI can do it for me faster, why waste my time?" - is a really frustrating thing to hear when trying to teach people. Even if you want to use these "tools" you will use them better if you know what you are doing. Knowing how to use a coping saw means you are better at using a jigsaw or scrollsaw.
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Elevated levels of lead in childrens' blood from mining? We'd rather not know
NSW Health continues to use machine known to produce inaccurate results to test child blood lead levels >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/09/nsw-health-children-blood-lead-levels-test-machine-inaccurate-resultsEnvironment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/05/
#mining #contamination #children #BrainDevelopment #lead #WillfulIgnorance #NSW #NegativeExternalities #EPA #harm -
Elevated levels of lead in childrens' blood from mining? We'd rather not know
NSW Health continues to use machine known to produce inaccurate results to test child blood lead levels >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/09/nsw-health-children-blood-lead-levels-test-machine-inaccurate-resultsEnvironment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/05/
#mining #contamination #children #BrainDevelopment #lead #WillfulIgnorance #NSW #NegativeExternalities #EPA #harm -
A quotation from Douglas Adams
“Oh, all right,” said the old man. “Here’s a prayer for you. Got a pencil?”
“Yes,” said Arthur.
“It goes like this. Let’s see now: ‘Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.’ That’s it. It’s what you say silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open.”
“Hmmmm,” said Arthur. “Well, thank you –”
“There’s another prayer that goes with it that’s very important,” continued the old man, “so you’d better jot this down, too.”
“Okay.”
“It goes, ‘Lord, lord, lord …’ It’s best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure. ‘Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.’ And that’s it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes form leaving out that last part.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 9 (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82307/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #mostlyharmless #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #consequences #ignorance #knowledge #prayer #protection #trouble #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
“Oh, all right,” said the old man. “Here’s a prayer for you. Got a pencil?”
“Yes,” said Arthur.
“It goes like this. Let’s see now: ‘Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.’ That’s it. It’s what you say silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open.”
“Hmmmm,” said Arthur. “Well, thank you –”
“There’s another prayer that goes with it that’s very important,” continued the old man, “so you’d better jot this down, too.”
“Okay.”
“It goes, ‘Lord, lord, lord …’ It’s best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure. ‘Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.’ And that’s it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes form leaving out that last part.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 9 (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82307/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #mostlyharmless #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #consequences #ignorance #knowledge #prayer #protection #trouble #willfulignorance
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https://educatedkanak.liberta.vip/why-did-you-come-to-germany-on-complicity-and-willful-ignorance/
Many migrants know this question: “Why did you come to Germany?” I write about why it’s rarely as innocent as it sounds. We often talk about migration as if it were just a personal decision — ignoring wars, repression, the arms trade, and Europe’s part in all of it. I try to unpack what it means to be asked such a personal question in that larger context.
#ImmigrationNarratives #WillfulIgnorance #Curiosity #Germany #Immigration
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. […] “But the Solar System!” I protested.
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 2, Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #ignorance #pertinence #science #sherlockholmes #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. […] “But the Solar System!” I protested.
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 2, Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #ignorance #pertinence #science #sherlockholmes #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/80990…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #derision #sourgrapes #dolt #education #ignorance #knowledge #school #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/80990…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #derision #sourgrapes #dolt #education #ignorance #knowledge #school #willfulignorance
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Why the Hell are Americans surprised that their regime officials who already repeatedly broke laws, including rigging and stealing elections, are now breaking laws (still)?
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Why the Hell are Americans surprised that their regime officials who already repeatedly broke laws, including rigging and stealing elections, are now breaking laws (still)?
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
When I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III “to prove a villain.” Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all. And this diligence in itself was in no way criminal; he certainly would never have murdered his superior in order to inherit his post. He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Postscript (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/80707/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #accountability #banalityofevil #consequences #crime #evil #evilperson #evildoer #Holocaust #intent #moralityplay #motivation #villain #willfulignorance
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The uneasiness of small town narratives in unfamiliar landscapes
"But there are negative consequences to this construction of the detective as outsider when the outback setting is presented as something unfamiliar, something to be feared. These arise from the origins of Australian Gothic, which scholars have long recognised as an expression of settler-colonial anxiety about the violent dispossession of the country’s Indigenous people."
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https://theconversation.com/why-jane-harpers-outback-noir-novels-make-for-comfortable-and-uncomfortable-reading-266228
#unsettling #SettlerSociety #SettlerColonialAnxiety #SettlerGothic #HauntedSpaces #noir #unease #anxiety #WillfulIgnorance #comfort #landscape #outsiders #narrative #HeteroglossicSpaceMaking #culture -
The uneasiness of small town narratives in unfamiliar landscapes
"But there are negative consequences to this construction of the detective as outsider when the outback setting is presented as something unfamiliar, something to be feared. These arise from the origins of Australian Gothic, which scholars have long recognised as an expression of settler-colonial anxiety about the violent dispossession of the country’s Indigenous people."
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https://theconversation.com/why-jane-harpers-outback-noir-novels-make-for-comfortable-and-uncomfortable-reading-266228
#unsettling #SettlerSociety #SettlerColonialAnxiety #SettlerGothic #HauntedSpaces #noir #unease #anxiety #WillfulIgnorance #comfort #landscape #outsiders #narrative #HeteroglossicSpaceMaking #culture -
The changes to the #swastika & #noose classification were part of a broader effort by the #USCG to remove the “concept” of #hate incidents from its regulations [ ala if you don’t test for COVID, then you won’t have so many reports of infection].
#law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech
https://media.defense.gov/2025/nov/14/2003820615/-1/-1/0/CI_5350_6A.pdf -
The changes to the #swastika & #noose classification were part of a broader effort by the #USCG to remove the “concept” of #hate incidents from its regulations [ ala if you don’t test for COVID, then you won’t have so many reports of infection].
#law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech
https://media.defense.gov/2025/nov/14/2003820615/-1/-1/0/CI_5350_6A.pdf -
@ErickaSimone @manieo and seriously... who can't figure out "afrophobia"?
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@ErickaSimone @manieo and seriously... who can't figure out "afrophobia"?
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A quotation from Naomi Shulman
Nice people made the best Nazis.
Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on “politics,” instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.Naomi Shulman (contemp.), American writer, essayist, editor
Essay (2016-11-17), “No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not the Moment to Remain Silent,” WBUR, National Public RadioMore info about this quote: wist.info/shulman-naomi/80028/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #naomishulman #compliance #complicity #gettingalong #looktheotherway #makingwaves #Nazis #niceness #pleasantness #politeness #politics #self-distraction #tyranny #willfulignorance -
#GOP dreaming of a glorious past: https://youtu.be/JPrAuF2f_oI?si=IYWuna4i1BJvncf6
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#GOP dreaming of a glorious past: https://youtu.be/JPrAuF2f_oI?si=IYWuna4i1BJvncf6
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
If thou commitest a Sin, because thou art wilfully Ignorant; the Wilfulness of thy Ignorance makes thy sin to be wilful.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2146 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #negligence #sin #willfulignorance #willfulness #wrongdoing #lawbreaking
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Strange enough how creatures of the human-kind shut their eyes to plainest facts; and by the mere inertia of Oblivion and Stupidity, live at ease in the midst of Wonders and Terrors. But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 8 (1834)More info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/78652…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #sartorresartus #humannature #humancondition #consideration #dolt #feelings #humanity #ignorance #reality #stupidity #thoughts #truth #willfulignorance #facts
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Just got off the phone wishing my 91 YO mother who lives by herself and has a steady diet of Fox and FB.
I am gob smacked - did you know that the Pedo in the white house had Epstein arrested for wanting to be with an underage girl? Did you know it's only the bad "illegals" he's rounding up? Did you know prices are down and he has got a tax cut for the middle class approved?!
#WillfulIgnorance #Pedophile #epstein -
Just got off the phone wishing my 91 YO mother who lives by herself and has a steady diet of Fox and FB.
I am gob smacked - did you know that the Pedo in the white house had Epstein arrested for wanting to be with an underage girl? Did you know it's only the bad "illegals" he's rounding up? Did you know prices are down and he has got a tax cut for the middle class approved?!
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Adults routinely assume harmful intent in a child's actions, when all they are expressing is malcontent.
Malcontent and harmful intent sound like they could make this fact a catchy, memorable sound byte, and holy holy hella fuck do we as a world full of human beans need to absorb, accept, and live this fact.
Please, somebody, make this a catchy sound byte?
#LifeSkills #babies #children #WillfulIgnorance #FixYourself #writingcommunity #help #Writers
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@cbcnews @edmonton-cbcnews Or, charge parents with criminal negligence. To endanger the life of a child because of #WillfulIgnorance on the part of parents should be a criminal offense. #EndOf.
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@cbcnews @edmonton-cbcnews Or, charge parents with criminal negligence. To endanger the life of a child because of #WillfulIgnorance on the part of parents should be a criminal offense. #EndOf.
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A quotation from Watterson, Bill
CALVIN: I don’t want to go to school. I don’t want to know anything new. I already know more than I want to! I liked things better when I didn’t understand them! The fact is, I’m being educated against my will! My rights are being trampled!
HOBBES: Is it a right to remain ignorant?
CALVIN: I don’t know, but I refuse to find out!Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-01-05)#quote #quotes #quotation #civilrights #school #willfulignorance #education #ignorance #school #understanding
Sourcing / notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4092/
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I don't get how anyone could ever look at humans and other primates and not think we're related—two arms, two legs, five fingers, five toes, two eyes, a nose, a mouth with teeth,…
Antiscience people are just weird.
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I don't get how anyone could ever look at humans and other primates and not think we're related—two arms, two legs, five fingers, five toes, two eyes, a nose, a mouth with teeth,…
Antiscience people are just weird.
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3/ I won’t boost their shitty revelations. Too many have lost too much to the #pandemic to embrace reckless & smug #idiots finally scared into enlightenment. Fuck those antisocial people & their contagion-spreading arrogant risk privilege. They’re on their own. #novid #covidisnotover #willfulignorance
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This Nature article paints a terrifying picture of the dangers for anyone performing any kind of #research.
“#Harassment of #scientists is surging — institutions aren’t sure how to help”
In the US “the aggression against science and scientists is coming from one political party, and the extreme element of one political party” but the article talks about harassment in other countries as well.
#Science #scholcomm #WillfulIgnorance #attacks #scholarship #freedom
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This Nature article paints a terrifying picture of the dangers for anyone performing any kind of #research.
“#Harassment of #scientists is surging — institutions aren’t sure how to help”
In the US “the aggression against science and scientists is coming from one political party, and the extreme element of one political party” but the article talks about harassment in other countries as well.
#Science #scholcomm #WillfulIgnorance #attacks #scholarship #freedom
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@kevincurry
Further confirmation that the more RW "news" people watch, the less informed they are. #WillfulIgnorance -
#TuckerCarlson’s assertion was astonishing given that two #journalists who are #UnitedStates citizens are now jailed in Russia: #EvanGershkovich, of The WSJ, who was accused of espionage & seized by #FSS agents last year during a reporting trip to Yekaterinburg, & #AlsuKurmasheva, of #RadioFreeEurope /Radio Liberty’s who has dual U.S. and Russian citizenship and who was arrested in October while visiting #Russia from Prague where she had been living.
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#TuckerCarlson, the #conservative fmr #FauxNews host w/a history of airing bogus “news” claimed — falsely — that prominent US newspapers & television outlets had refused to interview #Putin since his invasion of #Ukraine, & were ignoring #Russia’s perspective. Carlson labeled Western media as “corrupt,” & accused them of lies on Tues in a video confirming that he was in Moscow for a Q & A w/the president.
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#Putin interview w/ #TuckerCarlson shows #Kremlin outreach to #Trump’s #GOP
As Russian state television propagandists salivated over Tucker Carlson’s interview w/President Vladimir Putin, the first of Carlson’s falsehoods about his visit to #Moscow was punctured, fittingly enough, by Kremlin spox #DmitryPeskov, who presumably helped arrange the whole strange venture.
#Ukraine #Russia #propaganda #gaslighting #RightWing #WillfulIgnorance
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/07/tucker-carlson-putin-russia-ukraine/ -
"The right regularly assumes that those who don’t share its #politics must have been brainwashed somehow by someone.
It seems likely that this is, in part, a function of the increasingly closed information universe in which the political right sits, the “epistemic closure” of right-wing #media and rhetoric in which assumptions are often unquestioned and unchallenged."
~@pbump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/08/higher-education-desantis-florida-ivies/#GOP #Republicans #WillfulIgnorance #Misinformation #USPol #USPolitics #News #USA
