Today," he added, "the ignorance around here is staggering.
Sealey believes there remains a great deal of fear and ignorance around disability.
The play is a hilarious demonstration of how language can spin a web of ignorance around terror.
She thinks public opinion also adds to the problem: "There is a huge amount of stigma and ignorance around prostitution".
While Garrett claims she was "very lucky" with both her form of the illness and her treatment, she says ignorance around the illness is widespread.
"I think that there's a degree of cowardice and wilful ignorance around this condition…It's something we increasingly need to handle compassionately and pragmatically," he said.
But while it is now natural for drinkers to obsess over the grape variety and terroir of a wine or stroke their hipster beards over different micro-breweries' craft beers, there's a surprising degree of ignorance around spirits.
Politicians still routinely demonstrate their ignorance around rape, the FBI only changed its outdated definition of sexual assault in 2011, and even the courts regularly muck up rape cases.
However, his return has marked something of a watershed for me because having written about his contribution to reducing bigotry and ignorance around disability, the language he is using on Twitter, complete with photos, has made me reconsider my opinion.
Wilson Savino, director of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, said the current state of scientific ignorance around the virus and its effects resembles that over HIV – the human immunodeficiency virus which gives rise to Aids – in the early 1980s.
Unfortunately for Facebook, its corporate willful ignorance around protecting user data echoes other recent privacy catastrophes — a context that won't do it any favors.
