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More than half of USAmericans can't read to a sixth grade level, what does this actually mean? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Like, in a practical sense? Do you have any stories or examples from your life?

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[–] 53 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I had someone I know ask me what was wrong with the Korean PM declaring martial law since he was doing it because of a communist invasion. The article just repeated what he claimed he was doing and this guy hadn't thought about whether that was an accurate statement on his part. Just didn't occur to him that an official statement from a politician could be false.

He's not coincidentally a huge Chud with a lot of beliefs about a (((cabal))) running everything he doesn't like.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I legit think the only way to save these people is to very carefully word socialist theory in a way that they can understand through facebook level memes. But then you have to worry about the authority figures that actually can read seeing through it. curious-marx I don't know that re-education is actually possible in this case, tbh.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    I legit think the only way to save these people is to very carefully word socialist theory in a way that they can understand through facebook level memes

    Impossible, leftist memes must have multiple paragraphs of text at minimum

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago*

    The issue is also that these people actively do not want to learn, because learning actual history means learning that they are the bad guys. I think real re-education can only take place in a Chinese-style re-education camp (depicted wonderfully in one of my favorite movies, The Last Emperor).

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