#ignorance

[misterlemonztenth]

01-02-24 | s.b. "Southern" (stupid). misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive

[palatinewolfsblog]

"The most violent element in society is ignorance." Emma Goldman.

[aterimber]

Just a little PSA: I'm deleting every reblog I have talking about Israel and Palestine.

I knew I didn't know very much about what was going on, but seeing the horrors of what was happening, I felt compelled to try and help. One way I thought I was helping was by reblogging things I thought seemed important/worth sharing as a way to spread the word.

It's since been pointed out to me that this wasn't actually helpful and was actually quite the opposite. What was actually happening, unfortunately is that I was spreading misinformation and hate. That was definitely not my intention and I want to sincerely apologize for doing so.

Until I've completed the much needed research I need to do on the subject, I'll remain quiet and on the sidelines. Reading posts by Jewish people and learning real ways to be helpful.

I am so genuinely sorry for my ignorance, and I cannot believe my actions may have contributed to getting people killed. That's not my intention and it never will be. ❤

If anyone would like to chat privately - whether to vent or whatever - please feel free! I want Jewish people (and other minorities) to feel nothing but safe talking to me/on my blog. I'm here to listen, if needed.

[dragoneyes618]

"In a recent Harvard-Harris poll, 53 percent of Americans between 18-24 said that October 7 was justified by Israel's wrongs torward the Palestinians.

Those most likely to say so were also the most likely to know nothing about the history of Israeli-Palestinian conflict: e.g. that Gaza has not been occupied since 2005; that it is Hamas, not Israel, that limits the import of food and medical supplies; that far from committing genocide against Palestinians, the Palestinian population grew rapidly under Israeli rule, with life expectancy skyrocketing and infant mortality plummeting; that the Palestinians have been repeatedly offered a state since the original UN Partition in 1948; that far from being colonizers, Jews are indigenous to Israel, and purchased, not conquered, all the land on which Israel was originally founded; that at the time of the Second Aliyah of Jews, the land was desolate and largely unpopulated, and only when the Jews had drained the swamps and caused the deserts to bloom was a large Arab population attracted to live there; and that most of Israel's Jewish population today is descended from Jews of color ethnically cleansed from Arab lands."

-Yonoson Rosenblum, Mishpacha Magazine, Issue 993, page 38, January 3, 2024

[philosophybits]

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition.

David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary

[succulentsiren]

NEVER ARGUE WITH IGNORANGE

There’s a saying, “Queens don’t argue with peasants.”

[ohsalome]

(please don't take it as a dig at all #notallwesterners, but just as silly fun and illustration how some people can be stupid regradless of where they're from)

People from other countries also have amazing stories to tell:

[awesomecooperlove]

😱😱😱

[philosophicalconservatism]

"It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail."

Samuel Adams (1722-1803) U.S. statesman and founding father.

[kafkasapartment]

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 Asimov, 1980.

[itsmenefertiti]

I don’t care what people would think after i post this!!

Hamas is not ISIS. Hamas is not a terrorist group, it’s a resistance movement/group. Hamas is a resistance force fighting an apartheid regime and state. I’m tired of people saying Hamas are terrorists just because people are very used to the narrative of muslims being terrorists.

The palestinians fight back against their colonisers once and they’re called terrorists. All resistance movement in the past have been called terrorists but for all i know they all did free their country.

Don’t believe everything western media shows you about Hamas. They have been many videos going viral on social media about the released hamas hostages and all were taking nothing but positively regarding the treatment of Hamas members.

It’s a propaganda they want you to believe in. Because they believe everything muslim is terrorism. They make the bad guys look good.

How’s resisting and defending one’s country defined as terrorism?

Israelis get a taste of their own medicine and start crying?!?!?!

You have done worse to the Palestinians and it’s hasn’t just been a year, it has been 75 years and 40 days for torture, genocide, extermination and murder.

Also here is a blog post by @tamamita explaining how Hamas is different from ISIS, i found it very well articulated. 👇

And, Zionism is not judaism.

Noah Schnapp made a video giving away “zionism is sexy” and “Hamas is ISIS” stickers and was very much laughing about it with his fellows. People supporting him or excusing his behaviour are disgusting and inhumane as much as he is.

Imagine if the stickers said “genocide is sexy” because to me that’s what it says. Saying zionism is sexy is the equivalent of saying genocide is sexy.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

A Ward against Hubris

All Knowledge

All Knowledge that has been written down

All Knowledge that has been written down and is accessible via internet

All Knowledge that has been written down in a language that you can read and is accessible via internet

All Knowledge that you have gained via the internet

[userparamore]

PARAMORE | ACL MUSIC FESTIVAL hayley with the megaphone during ignorance ↳ for @buildyourfences

[philosophybits]

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Karl R. Popper

[dougielombax]

No.

I wouldn’t trust 99% of the general population with firearms.

Especially considering how Neurotypicals act around people like me.

Half the time they usually think that I’m insane and act like I should be sectioned or sterilised. Or worse!

Do you really think I’d want a mob of dumb, panicky, dangerous animals (to quote Men in Black) like them to be carrying guns?! With all their bigotry and othering on top of that?!

No.

I wouldn’t.

Absolutely not!

It’s out of the question.

Any of us (autistic people) even look at them funny, they start panicking and bleating on about how we’re frightening them and how they have a god given right to attack us on sight!

Heck, many of the dumb fuckers don’t even need an excuse! They just do it!

I’d keep them as far away from firearms as possible.

I’d keep the dumb fuckers away from crayons and sharp objects! To say nothing of actual guns.

Stupid animals!