There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac AsimovTags: politics democracy willful-ignorance united-states ignorance culture intellectual political cult anti-intellectualism
Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.
Erin MorgensternTags: willful-ignorance
(both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked
David MitchellTags: willful-ignorance rewriting-history selective-hearing
...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.
The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.
In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
Tags: willful-ignorance privilege racism race-relations american-culture black-and-white black-history white-privilege hypocricy trayvon-martin george-zimmerman
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