When I was older, I asked her, “Well, what about ignorant
people? Am I allowed to blame them?”
“Yep,” she said.
So, there you have it, straight from the horse’s mouth. If
you are an ignorant monucka, I will kick your ass.
Now, I know nobody’s born knowing everything and I’m not without a sense of fairness. So, if there’s something you don’t know about, fair enough. I’m not going to kick your ass just for not knowing things. Hell, there are things I don’t know, like how to speak Spanish or travel in time.
It’s willful ignorance that gets me polishin’ up my
ass-kickin’ boots. We’ve all met someone who doesn’t know and refuses to learn.
Even worse is the person who doesn’t know, but insists that they do know and
blows a gasket at any suggestion that maybe they don’t. Remember how, back
during the election, all of your Facebook friends became instant constitutional
scholars? That’s what I’m talking about.
I actually saw a great demonstration of this on a friend’s
Facebook page last week. My friend had shared a meme about how the AP is going
to stop using the term “illegal immigrants.” There were a few comments about
how great it is that the Associated Press is making a change that will help writers to more correctly use English. Then some blowhard
chimed in with his half-educated opinions about how it’s his right to call them
“illegals” because “freedom of speech lol.” If there’s one thing I’m sick of,
it’s jerks misinterpreting the First Amendment.
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| There's nothing in here about me not slapping you. |
As if that weren’t bad enough, Freedom of Speech espoused
his view that all “illegals” should be put to death if they’re caught being
illegally in the country for a second time! Hold the phone, buddy, crossing a
border without papers is akin to first-degree murder? But they don’t pay taxes
at all, and they have no rights here, so we can kill them and there’s nothing
anyone can do about it (his words, not mine. I’m paraphrasing though because he
didn’t spell too good.)
He supported his argument with quotes from Starship Troopers and anecdotal evidence
from his mother, and who am I to call his mother a liar? When presented with actual
research to the contrary, he pronounced it all “incorrect,” and declared, “I’m
rather bored of this conversation, though.”
Ah, the classic “I don’t wanna talk it anymore” defense! He
explained, “I’ve had [this conversation] plenty of times and no matter what
it’s always the same story.”
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| Yeah, but in the sequel, you get your ass kicked. |
