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

Peaty@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the reason the GOP exists as it does. It is the fucking idiots party.

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  • seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is exactly the goal. They want a large number of poorly educated people who are easy to manipulate. This is why they defund schools and ban reproductive health education as their very first steps when they come to power.

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    • RoosterBoy@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Large number of poorly educated, easily manipulated people? You mean like the immigrants the left is letting in in droves?

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve never understood this conspiracy. Illegal immigrants can’t vote. How exactly is the left supposed to benefit?

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      • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fuck off.

        My ancestors and maybe yours too for that matter, were poorly educated, not by choice. They migrated here bc they were desperate and it offered hope. And now many generations later, my parents’ and all subsequent generations in the family have been college educated with many success stories.

        You just don’t like brown people. Fuck off.

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  • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It might be, but I guarantee you that there’s a not insignificant number of people who align with the left who are dumb as rocks and just happened to fall into that party instead.

    If there’s some study proving that uneducated or unintelligent people are only ever exclusively on the right and the left is just full of geniuses, I haven’t seen it.

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    • rockyTron@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, in general those who have attained college degrees are more likely to vote Democratic and those who have attained just a high school diploma are more likely to vote Republican. There is a clear divide where the more educated cohort of society leans Democratic.

      journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/…/10659129221079862

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      • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Education isn’t 1 to 1 with intelligence, it’s mostly a wealth test in the US. Though I’d argue the phenomenon is more to do with being exposed to different people and wider cultural beliefs than raw intelligence, anyways.

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    • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Orr maybe, you see what you want to see.

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