:sigh:
I do blame the media for not having the guts for interviewing more skeptical minds in cases like this.
So much ignorance.
http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Venezuela/Los-pendejos.-De-Facundo-Cabral/714/
[Translated]
-Facundo Cabral – (from Argentine)
Fighting ignorance bell ring moment:
æDING!
Some translate this as Assholes. But the Spanish word Pendejo (anal hair) refers to Ignorance, stupidity, cowardice and jerkiness in one neat package.
An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person.
'Idiot' was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot guard themself against common physical dangers. The term was gradually replaced by 'profound mental retardation', which has since been replaced by other terms. Along with terms like moron, imbecile, retard and cretin, its use to describe people with ment...
Idiot is a word derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs (“person lacking professional skill,” “a private citizen,” “individual”), from ἴδιος, idios (“private,” “one’s own”).[1] In Latin the word idiota (“ordinary person, layman”) preceded the Late Latin meaning “uneducated or ignorant person.”
As my history teacher told me, the idiot was the one that was not involved with the community, a willful ignorant who was also not willing to improve his society.