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Being ignorant

A South Central PA term for being a AHole. May also be used in some other Appalachian other areas.
He’s just being ignorant. Sorry, I’m just being ignorant. He thinks being ignorant is funny?
by satkins93 December 2, 2022
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Aggressive Ignorance

Willfully ignoring a subject, to avoid being exposed. Removing a tag in a post and blocking someone, would be a form of aggressive ignorance.
The bank's aggressive ignorance over distributing federal funds to a company engaging in unlawful behavior, eventually cost their investors millions of dollars.
by a_spiritofthecircuit April 26, 2023
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Feinting Ignorance

What you're doing... AND what I'M doing! GET IT!? It's a play on words! By shifting the context of the word IGNORANCE I make it so that I'M doing the same thing YOU'RE doing! Did you get it? Remember when I said that? Did you get it? Before I explained it, I mean.
Hym "Right. So, feinting ignorance is where you act as though you are unaware of information of which you are fully aware. But forms of bigotry such as sexism and racism and ablism are ALSO considered ignorance. So you could say that we are BOTH feinting ignorance, right? It's funny. Now, I now you're thinking 'You aren't really doing that! You're just saying to get away with it. You're ignorance is real.' And to that I say: YOU DON'T CARE! You don't give a single fuck about it. You just don't like the things I've said. AND I DON'T ANSWER TO YOU! You aren't an authority to which I can be held accountable. You're likely some piss-ant parent who's butt-hurt I said I don't care about you kids. Or are someone who doesn't like the idea of me not being worse than you. But it's funny right? Now that I explained it. It's kind of funny.... I'm one of the greatest comedy writers of all time, by the way. So... Yeah. That is all."
by Hym Iam April 26, 2023
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White Ignorance

When a white person ignores and or justifies the crimes of white people.
"Both Palestine and Israel are suffering!" By saying this you are ignoring the crimes that the israeli government has committed, and hiding it in White Ignorance.
by Pizzaz December 27, 2023
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by LeSouffleDeVersailles February 21, 2025
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dinosaur ignorance

The willful refusal of corporate leadership to acknowledge or adopt emerging technology, trends, or innovations. This often leads to catastrophic business failure. Most commonly found in legacy companies where senior execs are allergic to change and cling to outdated models like it’s still 1995.

Symptoms include:

- Laughing off disruptive startups

- Refusing to invest in digital transformation (including AI)

- Saying things like “This is how we’ve always done it”

- Holding 3-hour meetings to ignore 3-minute solutions

- Exaggerated paranoia about worst case outcomes trying new things.

- Refusal to invest extra money just because it might lower short term profitability and might temporarily upset investors.

- Pathetically trying to look “new and hip” by wasting money on asinine expenditures DEI and wokeness thinking customers will overlook outdated products and services. This was especially problematic 2021-2024 but still unfortunately prevalent in many corporations. This is the “Bud Light” effect.
Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix for pocket change, but their execs unfortunately had Dinosaur Ignorance. They thought they were too big to fail and they couldn’t see the asteroid of new technology about to obliterate their entire business model. Now there is just a sad empty dusty store in Oregon full of regrets.
by BlueonBack2628 March 21, 2025
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The counterweight to Ignorance Objectivity—the belief that knowledge, while necessary, is never sufficient for objectivity. The Non-Ignorance Objectivist understands that learning a field's facts and methods is the entry requirement for having an informed opinion, but that even the most knowledgeable expert remains subject to framing effects, blind spots, and community assumptions. True objectivity isn't achieved by escaping knowledge or by accumulating it—it's achieved by constantly subjecting your knowledge to critique from multiple angles. It's the bias of people who know that knowing isn't enough.
"I've studied this for twenty years, which means I should be more suspicious of my own conclusions, not less. That's Non-Ignorance Objectivity Bias: expertise as the beginning of doubt, not the end of it."
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 22, 2026
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