Now I say it, it sounds obvious. The instances were:
it’s better for the long term if you know what a stereotype is, and maybe even know the common ones, than to not know any stereotypes. With the long term being to live preventing the negative effects of stereotypes, also I think some call this abolishment of stereotypes.
This also goes for other types of social constructs (you might think of one) that people might think are useless or constructed wrong, they don’t want to live in blissful ignorance (as i sometimes do), they want to understand the things that could influence their thinking. Now I think about it, blissful ignorance is also way harder to achieve once you know, so this attitude is actually very practical.
Once you know something, to be ignorant about it is just really foolish. But it is possible. I definitely agree with you on this.
sorry, by ignorance I meant actually forgetting about it, or never knowing in the first place, which I say is hard to do, not the other kind of ignorance which I would summarize as maladapting to the information that i have, for example not caring about it. Basically I sometimes think of misinformation or stereotypes or whatever as a cognitohazard, which isn’t actually ever helpful.
