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11. Ignorance is nothing to be proud of.
Sat Jun 8, 2019, 12:02 PM
Jun 2019

Yet, we have trump fansters everywhere for whom things like sexism, racism, sexual assaults, hate speech, bribes and payoffs, betrayals... can be ignored. That's just ignorance. An inability to learn, analyze and draw logical conclusions.

Many pro-restriction folk are not much better in a different way. The limit of their knowledge is not much more than which end of the gun is dangerous.

Many times I will quote someone well known in reference to what I believe is a wise or foolish move legally or politically. I suppose some might consider that to be argument from authority but I draw a distinction between opinions like those of a state senator such as Kevin De Leon and those of persons like Washington or Teddy Roosevelt who may have some knowledge of and experience with the topic. Now if someone wants to quote Wayne or Ted just because they happen to have a particular job, are paid for their ideologies and have a mouth that's a bit different.

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