#ignoranceischoice

For Critical Examination... Those Who Seek To Practice Intellectual Honesty, Who Seek To Be Problem Solvers In A World Of Problems, & Who Seek To Walk In Integrity MUST Shun And Avoid The Deflective Philosophy and Tactic of "WhatAboutism." "For those of you unfamiliar with the term "whataboutism", it is the logical fallacy where someone tries to discredit another by claiming hypocrisy without actually refuting or disproving the other person's argument. For instance, if someone sees a problem and wants to fix it, someone else can immediately retort, "Well what about these other things? Are they not important too?" even though those other topics may not even be remotely relevant to the situation initially brought to question. One of the most obvious uses of whataboutism in recent times is when the current President of the United States made a statement about the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. When asked about why he hadn’t condemned in Charlottesville, Donald Trump in his rancor said, "What about the 'alt-left' that came charging at, as you say, the 'alt-right,' do they have any semblance of guilt?"" "Whataboutism is a cowardly tactic. As a psychology major, it’s infuriating to see how it actually works quite effectively in a conversation. It acts as a complete distraction by derailing the conversation into what the defendant wants to talk about instead. Even when you finally prove them wrong on their “what about” statement, they can simply whip up new ones in an endless cycle. It fails to recognize a problem that is occurring and fails to add new discussion into how we can resolve current problems. It solves nothing and gets the conversation nowhere. The sooner our politicians and news media personalities realize this, the sooner we will be able to hold truly meaningful conversations on policy." #WhatAboutism #KnowledgeIsPower #IgnoranceIsChoice #NoRightToRemainSilent https://www.instagram.com/p/BvMoI_plknw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tef582higako

For Your Awareness... Representatives @rashidatlaib @repilhan Below Are Voices That Billionaire Financed Media Outlets And Corrupt, Bought And Sold, Political Parties And Leaders Will Not Allow You To Hear. @gop @thedemocrats @foxnews @cnn @msnbc @wearebreitbart #KnowledgeIsPower #IgnoranceIsChoice #AllJewishVoicesMatter #NoRightToRemainSilent "We are Jews who stand with Representative Ilhan Omar. She has been falsely accused of anti-Semitism since tweeting that GOP threats against her and Representative Rashida Tlaib for criticizing Israel were “all about the Benjamins baby.” When asked to clarify who is paying members of Congress “to be pro-Israel,” Omar replied, “AIPAC!” There is absolutely nothing anti-Semitic about calling out the noxious role of AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), which spends millions each year to buy U.S. political support for Israeli aggression and militarism against the Palestinian people. As the NYC chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace summed up: Accurately describing how the Israel lobby works in this country is not anti-Semitic. The never-ending smear campaign against Ilhan Omar is racism and Islamophobia in action.” There is no denying that money rules U.S. politics, and that powerful lobbies from the NRA to the fossil fuel lobby to AIPAC play destructive, anti-democratic roles in our political system, wielding money for legislative influence. The pro-Israel lobby has played an outsized role in producing nearly unanimous congressional support for Israel. It has organized a national campaign to suppress Palestinian activism on campuses, made the Israel Anti-Boycott Act a legislative priority, and for decades has boasted about their power to make or break political careers. To point out this reality is not anti-Semitic. https://www.instagram.com/p/ButYZ4bFFLP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mv58qt4rarm

For Reflection on Oil Profits, Oil Contracts, Coups, & Meddling of Sovereign Nations, OOPS I mean "Democracy," "Self Defense," & "Love" For The ________ People. #KnowledgeIsPower #IgnoranceIsChoice #NoRightToRemainSilent #SeemsLikeIranIsTheNextTarget I wonder if the genocide of Native Americans was done in this manner. One by one as we justify each action and ignore the impact. Surely someone could in the past and can in the present identify that, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG... https://www.instagram.com/p/BsussSpliMm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1628jtqrwmzt5

BRAINWASH ALERT: Take Note that @cnn & @news_cnn2 placed a photo to their negative story of incompetence with an image of two TSA workers, both of which are black. This is how programming and imprinting is done. Racial bias and prejudice are not accidental they are taught, learned, and in cases like this subliminally presented(imprinted). Moving forward when there is a negative or positive story on any news organization take note of what faces are provided. When you process the content placed before you, you can control its impact. When you can't process or step back and critically examine the content, you become a defenseless pawn of the manipulation of the messenger. P.S. The Little Things Are Not So Little... #KnowledgeIsPower #IgnoranceIsChoice #NoRightToRemainSilent @shaunking @angelarye @naacp @naacp_yc @corybooker @vanjones68 @drkeithburton @thekingcenter @oprah @hillharper https://www.instagram.com/p/BsnAyQaF9xF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=scrt18ldv50d