I'm cleaning up a mess in the living room when all of a sudden, I see a Smurf running towards me with outstretched arms. Except it's not a Smurf. It's my son, with blue food colouring on his face and his hands, and streaked across his chest...
On Willful Ignorance (Part 3 of 3)
Right doesn't know, and doesn't want to hear it. Right loves predictability and uniformity above all. Right likes having all the answers. Right will shame people and break them down until they fit into the box of knowledge and know-how they already have.
On Willful Ignorance (Part 2 of 3)
It is not okay to bully someone for having a different experience than your own. It is not okay to loudly declare that something does not exist simply because you have never personally encountered it. It is not okay to tell someone they are wrong because their life is not a carbon-copy of your own.
On Willful Ignorance (Part 1 of 3)
If your first instinct is that a person must be incorrect, exaggerating, or lying when they describe an experience that they have had and you have not, you are willfully ignorant.
What If?
I live my life here; between falling into a trembling ball wracked by despair, and soaring with the potential and hope of what is yet to come.
Ashley Lilley 