So we need to make sure our vote counts--first and foremost--by voting people like you, with your easy-to-deal-with-names and your hard-too-fathom-ignorance, right out of office.
Whilst post-truth has typically been used in a derogatory way by those aghast at the seeming ignorance of right leaning voters, in fact it's indicative of a much wider trend that applies to all of us.
So conservatives are ignorant, and ignorance is bliss, right?
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But May, whose group, Save Me, founded in 2010, campaigns for the protection of animals against cruel treatment, said: "Just as justice had to be fought for in the case of the abolition of slavery, the emancipation of women, and the outlawing of all kinds of despicable practices justified by tradition and ignorance, the rights of all sentient creatures to decent treatment have to be fought for".
As thoroughly disgusting and hurtful as I may find Geller's views to be, she is totally correct that neither governments nor bullets nor bombs should block access to her ignorance or our right to publicly repudiate it -- or perhaps even ignore it -- for the hate that it is.
"We saw a lot of bad practice there, kids being shouted at, swearing, fights; there was too much ignorance about the right environment for children to play football," Sufi says.
But ignorance is the right's friend, bogus figures bolstering wrong public estimates of benefit fraud (24%; real figure 0.7%) or numbers of black and Asian people, (a third, real number 11%).
Then again, maybe my ignorance will be right in with the rest of everything!
