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Ignorance by itself is simply the statement that someone lacks knowledge about a certain topic. Willful ignorance, on the other hand, is the deliberate, intentional effort to be malinformed (badly informed) because of laziness. Sometimes that's due to stupidity - a person's brain simply does not have enough ability to form abstractions that make up critical thought - but in most cases, it is due to not doing the hard work of gaining knowledge and challenging assumptions about their own internal world model, especially if changing that world model will make you less likely to be acceptable by one's in-groups.