willful ignorance — “A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest”
>>The interviews I read with some of the white kids (mostly semi-hip, university educated leftists) who were attacked virtually blamed Republicans for the whole thing.<<
I’d love to know the reasoning behind that thinking.
I don’t think there’s any reasoning involved at all, alas.
They just can’t admit that their liberal world-view is completely at variance with reality, so they begin to blame everybody else in a very loud voice just to distract themselves so they don’t really have to think about it.