Jun
28
Ignorance Boldly Spoken
It turns out Arizona DOES Border Mexico!
If Ignorance is Bliss then I would like to introduce you to the happiest woman in the world. Her name is Peggy West.
Last week County Supervisor and 2004 Hispanic Woman of the Year, Peggy West, stood up in front of her county board, God and ultimately the entire world and boldly shared her convictions about the new Arizona Immigration Law. She informed everyone that if Arizona shared a border with Mexico like Texas does then Arizona’s new law to crack down on immigration would make more sense. But because Arizona is “a ways removed” from Mexico, she was opposed to the law.
Yeah…you read that correctly. The scariest thing is that we aren’t talking about a 12 year old girl that flunked geography. We are talking about an award winning hispanic community supervisor. YIKES!
Now I don’t usually write about politics on my blog but I thought this acts as a wonderful example of people’s willingness to speak so boldly about something that they are so ignorant. We see this in Politics, Religion, Business, Health and the list goes on and on. It’s often the people who are the most passionate and the most willing to open their mouth in protest that are the most ignorant.
In my world, I see this most in health care. I have had people get into heated arguments with me because I have chosen not to vaccinate my children or because I think that medicine is a last resort instead of a first one. There are very educated yet ignorant doctors out there that have told my patients that Upper Cervical Care can not help them because they didn’t understand it or had never heard of it. Usually the doctors are telling the patients this right AFTER the patients have finished telling the doctor how much Upper Cervical Care has helped.
I guess that’s why I have come to the conclusion that just because someone looks like they should know what they are talking about doesn’t mean they actually do. I would encourage all those who are reading this to adopt that point of view (after you have done your research of course). A healthy skepticism of what people say is a good thing.
With That said…I want to offer two pieces of advice for today.
1. Educate yourself, then form your own opinion. Just because someone is in front of a camera, behind a mic, wearing a white coat or living in a white house that does not mean their opinion is or should be shared with the population as a whole. You may just find out that a lot of things you thought were opinions are actually agendas. NOT the same thing. If you don’t know what that means. Look it up! That’s a great place to start.
2. SPEAK UP! But do so ONLY AFTER you have educated yourself and formed your own opinion. Bad things happen when good people sit in silence. There are a lot of people out there that are more than willing to shout their ignorance from the roof top declaring to everyone, “We the Sheeple…” without taking even a moment to get their facts straight. If you know something is good and right, if you know the world is indeed round when everyone says it’s flat, then stand up. Be Bold. Speak up! The world does not benefit by you shrinking in order to avoid offending someone.
