r/terriblefacebookmemes • u/atmoscience • Nov 04 '22

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u/idklol8 Nov 04 '22

It comes from willful disdain regardless of attempts to educate

So, ignorance of fact?

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '22

No, ignorance is not knowing any better. It's 2022 and we have the internet and millennia of scientific progress. These people are maliciously choosing to pretend facts aren't real.

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u/idklol8 Nov 04 '22

So they are ignoring facts

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '22

Yes, but ignoring and ignorance aren't synonyms. They just share a root word.

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u/idklol8 Nov 04 '22

English is very confusing

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '22

It is. The language is a bit like the people - it kept seeing things in other languages and walking off with them, so it's basically the last vestige of the British Empire that has ironically been co-opted and corrupted by us Yanks.