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They literally can't—malice requires knowledge, and ignorance is lack of knowledge.
When committing a harmful act, either you know (malice) or don't know (ignorance) that it's harmful.
No it doesn't. Proof: all of human history
Willful ignorance breaks that absolute, and handily.
Choosing to remain or work toward a specific area/tier of ignorance for whatever myopic, hypocritical, bigoted, vile benefits that such intentional fuckery could offer you, personally... IS FUCKING MALICE.
proof: the US, in essence, currently. ✊🏼
damned furries can't parse nuance in a paper bag
Your emotional response, all caps expletives, and bigotry/prejudice toward a population of several hundred million people don't even contradict what I wrote, let alone refute it.
Malice requires willfulness, which requires knowledge, which ignorance is by definition a lack of, making malice and ignorance mutually exclusive, obviously.
It's as simple as that, your tantrum notwithstanding.
Ohnoes! Not the expletives! My stars! 😱🖕🏽
The "emotional" is re: the short list of reasons why people are opting into willful ignorance in the US, I presume? Aw, sweetie, if that's "emotional", you might wanna get off the internet, period. 🤪
You do realize that doubling down with this infantile condescension only makes you look worse, right?
It's truly pitiful to see someone react this way to being wrong.