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In reply to the discussion: Ironically, once you decide a person or group is "stupid," you are relieved from thinking about them [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)that behavior, and we should all be fighting back against it.
Thinking of people as stupid is actually not helpful. We lose the plot when we do that. Calling them stupid is also not helpful. This only feeds the beast. It won't get us anywhere.
Stupid is not the same as ignorant. Willful ignorance by the way, is not an outright choice, it is still a condition of certain ignorance. You know, because we've talked about it, that there is a socialization of that ignorance. There is engineering going on, even if it is also self perpetuating. Your solution apparently is to feed into the forces that help it to self perpetuate.
Why would you delete a thread that simply says it is not a good practice to fall into the same trap that the people we are struggling against have fallen into? That is a trap that is set for us. Why do anyone that favor?