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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe highest form of ignorance is...
And the GOP does this far too often.
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The highest form of ignorance is... (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Feb 2013
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Initech
(100,076 posts)1. I was going to say the highest form of ignorance is "pro lifers".
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)2. The highest form is "willful" . . .
And that can be of topics you know nothing about or in which you are well versed. Conservatives seem masters at both.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)5. Beat me to it! This^^^^ nt
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)3. Does a repuke know anything about anything other then hate?
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)6. That's SOP for Faux Snooze
AKA the Propaganda Ministry of the GOP.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)7. I like the Herbert Spencer quote which is similar to this.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
which is proof against all arguments
and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--
that principle is contempt prior to investigation."