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

National Ignore Your GF Day

On May 26th, every guy or girl who has a girlfriend must ignore them the ENTIRE day, no matter what!

Josh hasn’t talked to his girlfriend all day even though she blew up his phone multiple times. Unfortunately for Josh’s girlfriend it is May 26th, which is “nation ignore your gf day”National ignore your gf day means to not talk to your gf at all the entire day of May 26th

by FB Annie May 24, 2023

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

Thugus Ignoramus

The Thing Riley Freeman Is Referred To After Huey Steps On His Air Force Ones In The Boondocks Unaired Pilot.
A Ignoramus Is Defined As A "Ignorant or Stupid Person." Which Basically Means Riley Is A Ignorant Thug.

Person 1: "Don't Mess With My Girl Man, I Knock You Out."
Person 2: "Don't Be A Thugus Ignoramus."

by The Lightmare February 18, 2024

National Ignore Your Partner Day

Ignore your boyfriend/girlfriend all day without consequence

Tom: Hey, how are you?
Alisa: (says nothing)
Tom: Why are you ignoring me?
Alisa: Because it's National Ignore Your Partner Day.

by grayisthegoat June 7, 2024

Non-Ignorance Objectivity Bias

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

Intentional Ignorance Theory

A theory, inspired by Peter Burke's "Ignorance: A Global History," proposing that ignorance is not merely the absence of knowledge but can be deliberately created, maintained, and deployed for strategic purposes—goals of power, identity, social control, mass psychology, and hegemony. Intentional Ignorance Theory argues that ignorance is often an active achievement, produced through specific practices and institutions. Modern manifestations include dismissal tactics like Sokalism, Kampfism, and Boghossianism-Lindsayism-Pluckroseism; biases like Objectivity Bias, Unbiased Bias, and the Fallacy Fallacy; and rhetorical strategies like Neo-Sophism and Scientistic Sophism. Historically, it appears in colonial suppression of indigenous knowledge, institutional cover-ups, and elite cultivation of public ignorance. The theory reveals that ignorance is often not something to be overcome but something actively produced—and that understanding how ignorance is made is as important as understanding how knowledge is made.

Example: "The tobacco industry spent decades cultivating Intentional Ignorance about smoking's health effects—funding contradictory research, attacking legitimate science, creating doubt where none existed. They weren't ignorant; they were making ignorance. Intentional Ignorance Theory explains how knowledge is suppressed, how doubt is manufactured, how entire populations can be kept in the dark by those who benefit from their darkness. The theory doesn't just describe ignorance; it reveals its politics."

by Dumu The Void March 8, 2026