Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Proposed and actual legislation. Complex articles about the implications of policy decisions. Scientific and medical articles. Anything that can produce an informed electorate is what they should be able to read, and most of that is well above a sixth grade level.

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  • prowess2956@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I'm really enjoying you trying to change the mind of someone who is clearly three fifth graders in a trench coat.

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    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My hope is that somebody else reading the exchange will see the depths of the ignorance of OP. Because they're pretty fucking dumb.

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• CubbyTustard@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Primarily0617@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good thing there are a wealth of articles explaining in detail exactly what every single line of the constitution means.

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    • CubbyTustard@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • Primarily0617@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        you can't just claim the goalposts have moved because you didn't actually critically consider the original question

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    • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are you saying that you would be comfortable having US citizens solely rely on others to interpret and explain the Constitution to them? You don't want them to have the ability to read and understand it themselves? Who would those people explaining the Constitution to everyone else be?

      In all of your comments on this thread you seem to be arguing that having a seventh grade + reading level serves no purpose. Do you see any value in having a higher than sixth grade reading level as an American citizen?

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      • Primarily0617@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don't want everybody working off their own interpretation of what the constitution says, no. This is the same argument as people who are anti-vax because people should "do their own research" rather than trusting experts.

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