I agree with what's been said. Ignorance is an opiate for the masses (yeah, I totally ripped off a Karl Marx quote there, but we needn't pull that up). Many, instead of bothering to understand something foreign to them, simply write it off as "weird" or "bad" or what have you and leave it at that. By simply chalking it up as something "bad," they relieve themselves of the burden of understanding what it is they don't already grasp. Thus, ignorance.

Don't let it get to you. People who are so quick to resort to ignorance in matters that don't concern them aren't worth your time.