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More (not so) fun facts:
54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level.
21% read below a 5th grade level, which is considered functionally illiterate.
High immigration numbers don't fully explain it either, as first gen immigrants only make up about 1/3 of those with low literacy.
Might have something to do with society being overrun to hell with demands for attention from worthless trash text that wastes our time while begging for money. Like the New York Times, for example.
Give kids a reason to learn to read, stop making it a gateway to an onerous burden, then we'll talk.
Existence itself is an onerous burden in a world where half of people can't read.
Yeah they're the ones making life miserable for us, and definitely not the perfectly well educated elite pedophile genocidists driving the world straight into hell while praising Jesus. It's the dumb poor people who are at fault. Of course. How could I not have seen it sooner.
The ones who are driving genocide being educated does NOT mean that a meaningful proportion of the educated are responsible for it. The wealthy and powerful can afford education, so the wealthy and powerful happen to be educated. Education does not cause genocidal power. Correlation is not causation.
There is, however, an EXTREMELY high level of correlation between the poorly educated and not having the critical thinking to recognize bad arguments.
I didn't make that claim. The fact is that being uneducated doesn't mean you're the problem, and being educated doesn't mean you're not the problem. The problem is definitely traceable to educated, wealthy people using their knowledge and wealth to destroy the systems of public education and spread misinformation. Fuck outta here with your victim blaming.
Just remember that the classism is the point. No one is free until we all are