Is mostly unconscious the stupid woman who said poor people with little to eat were hungry because they had forgotten or never learned how to cook didn't I'm sure say it with the intention of hurting anyone, let alone the millions of people who are either on minimum wage, disabled or just can't get a job in this squeaky clean, high tech, no real industry world in which we live.
Sure it was ignorant but it was unconscious the most sincere form of ignorance is of things which we've genuinely never experienced and so we fill our heads with 'must be' and comfort ourselves with the time honoured 'its their own fault' which is really what the, to use another old fashioned phrase, 'good woman' was really saying.
You see I don't think there is much doubt that she does see herself as a 'good woman', convinced she is or was doing her bit to help all the uneducated, unwashed masses. Its also highly unlikely that until she made headlines she had any idea that what she said was ignorant in every possible interpretation of the word, and ignorant she still is excepting she may well have learned that in future she would do well to hide her honest opinions from the media..
Is that better or worse? For me I would far rather know and if she is as hard of learning as she appears to be drag her around the local cheap shop by her hair and give her a much needed lesson in the real difference between the cost of cooking compared to buying off the shelf.
Enough of her she meant what she said and taught all us uneducated, terrible cooks an important lesson. I hope her husband gets a similar lesson at the next General Election. Oh, and I've chosen not to name her because although she is easily identifiable she is not by any means alone in her ignorance.
Sure it was ignorant but it was unconscious the most sincere form of ignorance is of things which we've genuinely never experienced and so we fill our heads with 'must be' and comfort ourselves with the time honoured 'its their own fault' which is really what the, to use another old fashioned phrase, 'good woman' was really saying.
You see I don't think there is much doubt that she does see herself as a 'good woman', convinced she is or was doing her bit to help all the uneducated, unwashed masses. Its also highly unlikely that until she made headlines she had any idea that what she said was ignorant in every possible interpretation of the word, and ignorant she still is excepting she may well have learned that in future she would do well to hide her honest opinions from the media..
Is that better or worse? For me I would far rather know and if she is as hard of learning as she appears to be drag her around the local cheap shop by her hair and give her a much needed lesson in the real difference between the cost of cooking compared to buying off the shelf.
Enough of her she meant what she said and taught all us uneducated, terrible cooks an important lesson. I hope her husband gets a similar lesson at the next General Election. Oh, and I've chosen not to name her because although she is easily identifiable she is not by any means alone in her ignorance.
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