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To narrow it down, it has to be something you will not forgive a country for doing for the rest of your life. Alternatively, you can feel something in great disdain towards the whole world, like what you see universally done or know of.

Mine would be and I strongly use this word because of the practice associated to it, but, the raping of information.

And I say that because it is astonishingly appalling just how distorted information has gotten. With how modern day journalism has been to even half-baked Wikipedia articles that aren't detailed. Even historical accounts aren't entirely safe because they just get revised and re-written at a moment's notice to fit particular narratives or perspectives of others.

The lines of lies and truths are completely blurred, only registered by particular contexts or levels of convenience. It burns my mind up to think some of the time, as to what I should take in for information that isn't just for a purpose of study. I'm so jaded towards anything, I take everything projected with contempt.

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[-] SarahFromOz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

The way everything has been stupefied. Half of adults can't read or write at a functional level. If they can't read how do they fact check?

I am sure public schools have been deliberately made worse because a dumber population is easier to control.

I just don't know how to prove it.

[-] blackmoldbasement@fedinsfw.app 1 points 1 day ago

the push for standardized testing, and emphasizing workforce preparation. Shaping kids into people who can fit into society instead of enabling kids to be the best version of themselves. Conservative education policy in general does this shit.

Reading into the history of GW Bush education reforms would help with this. As well as the history of segregation and how it was a core factor in the development of private schools as an obsession of the american right-wing

[-] SarahFromOz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Actually I am not in the USA. But it is the same in other developed countries too! Makes me think it's a bit deliberate?

[-] blackmoldbasement@fedinsfw.app 1 points 1 day ago

Fair enough, probably something to do with anti-education political forces having enough time to consolidate after the WW2 welfare state consensus, and enough time for the policies they enact to be fully felt.

Also phone bad probably

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