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What do you call a person who chooses to be ignorant on somethings but not others?

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Like someone might follow local weather and local news, but nothing global.

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Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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Define ignorance, I guess. I feel like nonparticipation isn’t necessarily ignorance.

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I guess, innocence in the context of the question, I mean if a person just decides to learn about, listen to, goes out of their way to avoid learning about a thing but not others.

Such as avoiding global news and sticking with just local news.

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MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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Such as avoiding global news and sticking with just local news.

Sounds like they understand Circles of Influence and are tuning their circle of concern to match.

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Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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I avoid local news and only keep up on global news. Does that make me based?

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