"Vincible Ignorance"

[kentuck]

https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=37108

VINCIBLE IGNORANCE
Definition

Lack of knowledge for which a person is morally responsible. It is culpable ignorance because it could be cleared up if the person used sufficient diligence. One is said to be simply (but culpably) ignorant if one fails to make enough effort to learn what should be known; guilt then depends on one's lack of effort to clear up the ignorance. That person is crassly ignorant when the lack of knowledge is not directly willed but rather due to neglect or laziness; as a result the guilt is somewhat lessened, but in grave matters a person would still be gravely responsible. A person has affected ignorance when one deliberately fosters it in order not to be inhibited in what one wants to do; such ignorance is gravely wrong when it concerns serious matters. (Etym. Latin vincibilis, easily overcome; ignorantia, want of knowledge or information.)

[DURHAM D]

1. Is this about the three female journalists(?) on MSNBC

at about 4:50 CST? Add that MSNBC reader Kristen Welker who was hosting to that stupid list.

Unbelievable the trash they were talking about Hillary because they have absolutely NO understanding of the email issue.

Earlier today stupid Kristen was talking about the bus tour into Nebraska. Clearly she has NO idea that Nebraska is one of two states that splits their votes in the electoral college.

STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!

GET THE HOOK AND GET THEM OFF.

[meow2u3]

2. Vincible ignorance: the ignorance of the far right summed up

It's not that they don't know any better; it's that they don't WANT to know better. Trumpanzees are a prime example of vincible ignorance in action.

[safeinOhio]

3. I call it

Having a case of the Archi Bunker.