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tla  ·  3179 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ignorance is a mold that looks like a fire.

No. Ignorance is a thing that is taught. People are taught to embrace ignorance. It is embraced when people are encouraged to give equal weight to fact and opinion. Ignorance spreads when people are subject to noxious falsehoods like racism to the point that they start to accept them and ignore reality.

What you're talking about is naivety. The state at which one is most susceptible to ignorance.