What did they think it was?
I’ve heard some real lulus from the anti-abortion crowd, but my favorite was “You know Roe (of Roe v. Wade fame) wasn’t even pregnant.”
I guess one could say that blindly defending one’s ideas is a form of ignorance. But I think it’s much more difficult to change someone’s mind about something if it’s because they don’t want to look stupid.
That’s why I sometimes shake my head when I see debators antagonizing each other. Even when a person has all the right facts it’s an ignorant way to go about fighting ignorance.
Want to make ignorance dig in its heels? Make it personal.
The most blindly thoughtless remark I can remember off the top of my head was from a coworker who told me that the reason my hair was so long was because I braided it. I didn’t bother, but I think it would have been easy to help her think that one through if I had simply asked, “Do you think it could be the other way around and that I can braid it because it’s long?”
Maybe they were thinking it was extensions?
I have an otherwise smart friend who is a truther. He questions why the engines from the planes that hit the WTC have never been found. After all, they are designed to withstand a huge amount of heat.
I honestly couldn’t anser that.
I wasn’t clear. My error.
It was a long time before extensions were in common usage and she used words to the effect that braiding your hair made it grow faster.
Yeah. Where are those darned engines? I have many unanswered questions about the Pentagon attack. Don’t ask or someone will call you a conspiracy nut and you won’t get reasonable answers. 
I once heard an elderly lady tell her friend that her doctor told her she had no cholesterol.
When my rabbit had a malocclusion problem with her teeth and needed surgery to have her front teeth removed, a few “helpful” people pointed out that there were people out there who couldn’t afford dentistry for themselves, while I was splurging for dentistry on a rabbit.
I agree that everyone should be able to afford basic dentistry, but it was not my rabbit’s fault that they couldn’t. Was I supposed to let her die a slow, painful death from starvation because other people can’t get proper dental care? Or was I supposed to put her down for an illness that could be easily remedied by relatively noninvasive veterinary care?
Though I understand, unfortunately, in reality cost is a factor in who gets medical care, my rabbit got several more joyful years of life because of that surgery. I don’t regret it at all.
This happens a lot to me. I get really tired of it. My parents seem to be a big source of it unfortunately.
My mom insists that Obama is an arab and will make everyone turn to Islam and has no birth certificate and every other lump of bs thrown at him since he took office. When I try to show her that what she thinks is wrong with actual evidence, she just dismisses it and says that ‘she knows what she knows’. My dad thinks much the same thing.
My mom is deeply Catholic, I was raised Catholic, and my becoming an atheist really upset her. She constantly tells me I should come back and I should pray and go to church and how could I reject the truths I was brought up to believe etc. When I try to argue a point with her she usually replies with something like ‘Oh I dont read the bible I just listen to the priest at mass’. I need to stop trying to argue with her.
At one of my jobs I had a Muslim co-worker who would not leave me alone once he found out I was an atheist. His first response was ‘No, no one is an atheist, everyone believes in god’. After that he sent me links to videos that proved Islam was right. When I tried to show that what was being said was obviously wrong he would just shake his head and mumble something about me just not getting it.
I have a friend I talk to who trusts all kinds of alternative medicine. She doesn’t need to see a doctor about her kidney stones anymore, she takes an herb. Her kid’s behavioral problems are caused by food dyes, and giving him camel’s milk makes him behave. Vaccines cause more deaths than they prevent. She gets upset when I try to show her that there’s nothing that supports her theories, and she usually responds with some variant of ‘Im a college educated adult how dare you question my choices etc’.
The list just goes on an on.
I was part of the counter-protest against the idiots a couple years ago. Those people could actually keep a straight face when telling me all about how the mosque would allow Sharia law to take over, never mind that their protest was supposed to be because they felt the mosque folks hadn’t done proper research about the “traffic flow” of the new mosque location. Yeah, the building that’s just barely within city limits, and is smaller than the mega church a large number of the protesters attend, the mega church that managed to get two city traffic lights installed just to handle their Sunday traffic. There was just SO. MUCH. STUPID. that WOULD. NOT. FIX.
Well, to be pedantic…at the time of the court’s decision…she wasn’t - the baby had already been born.
Now I’m picturing camel’s milk as being some sort of Feliway for little boys. 
Also, where in hell does one purchase camel milk, assuming one does not reside in the Middle East? 