Ill avoid including the source of this quote, because in this crazy polarised world thats sometimes considered enough to dismiss something. It nicely puts across something I woke up thinking about this morning. Yesterday I urged you to talk with people who disagree with you. That requires respectful engagement. But Im not suggesting you waste your time on people who are willfully ignorant. The six signs of willful ignorance: (1) The person you’re debating uses nastiness as a substitute for thought; (2) attacks the source of an argument rather than the argument’s merits; (3) claims causation from mere correlation (e.g., a rooster’s crowing makes sun rise); (4) disputes facts on which there’s an overwhelming scientific or historical consensus (evolution, climate change, widening inequality, the Holocaust); (5) blames or stereotypes entire groups of people; (6) repeats the same point without responding to arguments or information you provide. Did I leave anything out?
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:45:07 +0000
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