A broadly educated population is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative ideologies.
I would suggest it's the conservative ideologies that are toxic, education is the antidote.
Conservatism is about favoring tradition and supporting the status quo. Going this wild about a common grammatical construct because it reminds you of people you hate for existing isn't conservative, it's something far worse.
Conservatism is about favoring tradition and supporting the status quo.
That's just what Conservatism claims to be about, but it has always been regressive
Conservatism is about favoring tradition and supporting the status quo.
No, that's a lie conservatives tell to make their ideology seem less abhorrent.
What conservatism is actually about is perpetuating hierarchy.
One could argue that so called "traditions" they are holding so much dearly in their heart never was fully a thing and is just the product of past idealizations and marketing propaganda. "The perfect suburban american trad family" from the 60s is a construct made by marketing people to sell fridges, diamond and beautiful car.
Imagine being so scared of pronouns that you tear up a little kid's English homework. Like, can you really be that dense? What's next, Adjectives?!
Modern conservatism is mental illness - it's not a case of being dense - it's a case of being genuinely disabled.
Ironic for a political ideology grounded in and returning to eugenics.
They'd probably burn the science books purely based on the fact it's science.
But when they learn about homosapiens theyll lose their shit about a gay agenda
George does not like pronouns. George tries to keep George’s temper under George’s control when the (plural) people George interacts with use pronouns.
That's a well radicalised obedient party soldier who will stop at nothing once you point at an inconvenient target and say the right buzzwords. Real Jan6 material, just as planned and executed for decades.
I mean, it's a Reddit story, so grain of salt.
But it is a very funny story
Yeah this is peak reddit story telling. I can even see the top comment: this is MORE than mildly infuriating. That's why it's posted there, engagement farming
Holy shit, wait, what if we convince them that gender is a liberal hoax?
Your flaw in logic and reasoning is applying logic and reasoning.
Dude doesn't even remember elementary school English lessons.
No, we convince them that having sex is woke.
It doesn't work that way. These "people's" worldview is "heads I win, tails you lose." They will be selectively hyper-credulous to whatever bullshit they want to believe, while turning into hyper-skeptics about anything they don't want to believe.
You will never, ever win against them with a logical argument, not even reverse psychology, because the only rules they play by are the ones they make up second-by-second to make them victorious against you.
On one hand, this is obviously fake
On the other hand, there's 7 billion people on the planet and the odds that one of them would do this is very high
The year was 1991.
My roommate decides to eat hot dogs.
We keep breads in the freezer so they last.
Toaster is broken.
I tell this to my roommate before I go to the toilet.
I come out and I see a pot of boiling water with hot dogs and hot dog buns in it.
My roommate decided to boil bread to warm it up.
People can be far stupider than you could possibly ever imagine.
I had a friend that liked to put butter and honey on his bread before he put it in a two slice toaster. He did this every morning for years.
Each time the toaster broke or caught fire, he would put it out and get a new toaster and repeat the process. He may still be doing it to this day.
Well I know what my mom would do. She'd kick that bf in the nuts for getting mad at her kid like that, lol.
I am not being hyperbolic.
Yeah, my mom would dropped that like it was hot. I was home schooled because we moved so much (poor, not military). When we got to the science module of the school books when I was ± 8 years old, she realized just how much fundamentalist bullshit was in them. She has spent basically everything on those books, and we never used them again. Went to the local library and got all the science books she could, and taught actual science to me. The books they had sent literally had drawings on humans wearing leopard skins foraging for berries while a dinosaur drank water in the background.
This is how extremism works. If they get rid of knowledge they then control the knowledge and how it’s interpreted. Especially how people are educated.
A Teacher in Utah was fired for writing an educational blog post about homophones.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/blogger-fired-homophones_n_5637873
I swear, I've been thinking there's nothing from the US that can surprise me anymore, but this did get me.
How can there be no-one there in any position of power to ask "wtf are you doing"?
The thing that really gets me about this story is it was an ESL School. The students were mostly adults learning to speak English. Not only should an ESL school understand the English language well enough to know what a homophone is, homophones are an extremely important concept for non-native English speakers because that kind of word can cause lexical confusion.
This teacher was fired for doing his job correctly.
Wonder if this is real or just ragebait, really can't be sure in the current day lmao
I saw a meme yesterday that references this phenomenon:
"the saying used to be 'it's too good to be true' has morphed into 'it's too horrid to be false.'"
On reddit it's usually best to just assume something is for attention
Any person who freaks out over grammar lessons and destroys a child's homework is completely unhinged and seriously needs some mental health care interventions.
That lack of impulse control and rage has no place in a family setting.... or anywhere really.
I guess these are the family values conservatives are pushing these days. Grown men ripping up a kid's homework assignments. I guess book burning wasn't enough.
Seems like everything is a pronoun these days. Anything can be a pronoun too. Could I even be one?
Mr. Rogers says you can do anything you want if you use your imagination.
That’s far more than mildly infuriating. I’d consider this child abuse.
I hope this kid escapes this clearly toxic situation.
Anti-intellectualism is a cancer growing in today's societies
Pronouns are a basic part of language. Getting rid of them makes communication way harder. Unless you speak Spanish, I guess.
Do you think we don't use pronouns in Spanish? Because we absolutely do.
Pretty sure pronouns didnt exist for him in school because he dropped out before they taught it to him
That bf would get clocked if they intimidated my siblings like that and spewed that nonsense in my house.
Someone needs a Schoolhouse Rock, preferably dropped on their head from a great height.
I fully expect JD Vance to use an elementary school pronoun worksheet to suggest drag queens are grooming children.
Literacy is bad mmmm'kay?
/s (obviously)
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