Rage-Inducing Moments of Ignorance and Stupidity

[socialtangent]

I'm sure everyone here has witnessed someone display such a degree of ignorance, that it is almost appalling.

Here's one that happened to me today:

In my English IV class (a class with only seniors, about to graduate, mind you), we were reading "The Rocking Horse Winner" from our British Literature book. In the story, there's many references to British currency. Right in the middle of the reading, one student raised his hand and said something along the lines of "Hey, Mr. [Teacher's name], why can't you say "dollars" and "cents" instead of "pounds" and "shillings", you know, like actual money?". Me and my teacher were absolutely dumbfounded. When my teacher explained that a Pound was British currency, he added to his stupidity by asking "Oh, so a kilogram is money there too?". At that point, my teacher was so mortified, he pretty much stopped the lesson for the day.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Some moron in my physics class:

"Is the sun hot?"

In all seriousness, not a joke. How did I end up in a class with these people?

 

[Slayer_2]

I love asking people "When did the war of 1812 take place?". Out of 5 friends I've asked, none have answered correctly. And two of them are honor-roll students.

Also, my friend thought that the KGB and KKK are the same thing.

 

[Iron Criterion]

A paraphrased quote from generic hot moronic girl #487459 who was in my history class "Oh really I didn't even know there was a first one". When we told we would be covering World War 2 that year. It was the type of moment that you imagine even God facepalmed.

 

[ReincarnatedFTP]

"The theory of evolution is totally wrong, we came from God, we didn't descend from monkeys!"

"So noone likes Obama, can we impeach him?"

"Abortion is killing babies!"

"Obama is not a capitalist"

*Me mentioning some guy who carried a gun to an Obama rally, who showed in support of him* *Some dumb whore:"That's a total waste of bringing a gun!"*

"I'd totally vote for Palin"

(EDIT:The discussion later in this thread reminded me that some idiot once said "Hitler was a communist".)


I live in Alabama, so these moments happen often, and it has become less rage inducing over time. It probably helps that I'm forced to go to a crazy fundamentalist Baptist church too. Most of the idiocy comes from the far right religious fundamentalists and other far right nuts. There's a couple of vegan hipsters that annoy the piss out of me but they're not half as quote-worthy.

 

[Austichar]

This one girl in my class today asked if Argentina was located in Texas. When we told her it was in South America, she was surprised and said "I didn;t know it was a country!". She's not known for being smart at my school, lol.

 

[EHKOS]

Most comments on youtube make me cringe.

 

[Irridium]

Oh my god.

I remember in science class, we had a really dumb debate about Gravity. This one girl thought gravity pulled "down", so she asked how people stayed on the Earth.

It took 40 damn minutes to explain that gravity pulls us to the center of the Earth, not "down".

Ugh...

 

[razer17]

People saying evolution is a myth. Everytime.
And at one point "theres a dead bird"
Girl "Where?" Looks up in the air.

 

[ExplosionProofTaco]

I can see 90% of these posts start off with 'In my x Class...' (replace x with class name)

I chose to wear my Hammer and Sickle T shirt the other day. Some curious kid came up to me and said:

Tosser: 'What's that on your shirt?'
Me: 'It's the symbol of the Soviet Union'
Tosser: 'Oh, Is that, like, White Power or something?'
Me: *Sighs and walks off*

 

[Roxas1359]

Someone in my AP World History Class thought that the Holocaust never happened. Needless to say that everyone, including the teacher, wanted to hit that student in the head with our large AP World text books.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Most comments on youtube make me cringe.

you're going to fit in well here. Welcome to the Escapist.

OT:

Anytime somebody posts this picture:

Spoiler: Large image, ignorance might melt your brain

As a socialist, knowing that socialism is an ideal based in pure democracy, this makes me cringe. Sometimes, seeing somebody use it to represent the socialist ideology will make me feel legitimate feelings of depression for around an hour.

 

[ReincarnatedFTP]

Most comments on youtube make me cringe.

you're going to fit in well here. Welcome to the Escapist.

OT:

Anytime somebody posts this picture:

Spoiler: Large image, ignorance might melt your brain

As a socialist, knowing that socialism is an ideal based in pure democracy, this makes me cringe. Sometimes, seeing somebody use it to represent the socialist ideology will make me feel legitimate feelings of depression for around an hour.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. IS THAT HITLER ON THE FAR RIGHT? I can understand confusing communism and socialism, since they're on the same side of the spectrum but HITLER IS ON THE FAR RIGHT, A FASCIST, ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM. HE HATED SOCIALISTS.
/rage

Not to mention the two on the left and center were communists, not socialists.

 

[Scolar Visari]

I was put on probation for letting some of my rage slip out during a discussion on this site. It boiled down to the person basically saying "I have no experience in X and intend to never have experience in X. However, I would like to state X takes no skill/effort and that Y is much better in every way." I told them they were either a troll or ignorant of X. They then repeated the original line and threw in a personal attack for good measure. I responded by using some harsh tone/language. I probably needed the cooldown, but disguised shitposting gets to me.

 

[Zacharine]

This happened in the army. My commanding officer-to-be in case of war (we were training to be reservists, he was a 2nd lieutenant trainee, me a sergeant 2nd class) pondered at a shooting range why ice and snow had different colours and why the other is opaque and the other is not.

Well, since we were just putting targets up and prepping the range for the rest of the company to arrive in a hour or so, I snickered as there were no one else around.

He asked what was funny.

I said that of course he knows, that kind of stuff is almost first-year highschool physics.

It took him 5 minutes to convince me he truly didn't know, at which point I really facepalmed. I mean seriously, he barely knew the source of aurora borealis or the physics behind rainbows.

Then I used the next 10 minutes explaining the nature of reflection and absobtion of light in matter. To his credit, he did understand and remember after that. Science-knowledge wise, he wasn't too bright. But he did have a good memory and was sharp as hell. Tell him anything twice, and he would remember the particulars even weeks later.

Also, whenever someone claims Hitler was an atheist or that USSR was a state founded upon atheistic principles....

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Most comments on youtube make me cringe.

you're going to fit in well here. Welcome to the Escapist.

OT:

Anytime somebody posts this picture:

Spoiler: Large image, ignorance might melt your brain

As a socialist, knowing that socialism is an ideal based in pure democracy, this makes me cringe. Sometimes, seeing somebody use it to represent the socialist ideology will make me feel legitimate feelings of depression for around an hour.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. IS THAT HITLER ON THE FAR RIGHT? I can understand confusing communism and socialism, since they're on the same side of the spectrum but HITLER IS ON THE FAR RIGHT, A FASCIST, ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM. HE HATED SOCIALISTS.
/rage

Not to mention the two on the left and center were communists, not socialists.

snip

I can sympathize with that depression, but since I'm not one to cut myself I'll cut the next person that posts it. and While we're on ideologies, "Communism is a dictatorial totalitarian regime where to government controls and applies the means of production." This wasn't said by a class mate, this was in my text book. Hell just take the above poster and replace socialism with communism. Oh and, "North Korea is an atheist country." I'm gonna stop now before my head explodes

This is why I love the Escapist. Nobody responded with ignorance telling me that I was wrong and that socialism is "eveelz". Multiple people sympathized.

 

[Beardly]

I was in high school when 9/11 happened. Shortly after finding out about it a few people beat up the Chinese exchange student at our school because they thought China was behind the attack. I asked one of the kids why they thought China did it and they told me "China has 2 billion people if they start a war with us they can kick our ass". I had to walk away after that.