Unfortunately, when people choose to remain ignorant about something, it doesn’t necessarily follow that they fail to form opinions about it. If people have an understandable tendency to limit the effort they put into learning about social or public policy issues, they frequently also have a tendency to form strong opinions about national issues based on relatively little information. Hence the prevalence of strong negative — bigoted, in other words — opinions about LGBT people, People of Color, and immigrants.

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