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.
Connection
My boy taught me that human connection is not simply enjoying common ground with another person. It's not about mutual likes and dislikes, it's not about shared activities and interests. It's not about speaking the same language. It's certainly not about thinking alike.
Ashley Lilley 