To the Left, “aware” = “indoctrinated” and “ignorant” = “has rejected the indoctrination”.
Notice how a Leftist responds with “that’s just ignorant” when confronted with any disagreeing viewpoint? It’s a way of dismissing contrary data without having to consider it.
The wikileaks called them the compliant masses.
Or rather, of trumpeting his/her “knowledge” as king without larger empirical evidence to point to.