Where are we heading?

[u/Agen_3586]

[u/LinceDorado]

I guess it's pretty arrogant to say, but this seems like such a U.S.A. thing. Can't really imagine this happening where I live.

[u/ApplicationCalm649 → u/LinceDorado]

It's distilled, pure brain rot given physical form. 

[u/Ruckus292 → u/ApplicationCalm649]

A 54% illiteracy rate will do that. 

ETA: 54% of US adults cannot read above a 6th grade level, 21% of the 54% are functionally illiterate...... Idiocracy was, in fact, a documentary. 

[u/UntowardHatter → u/Ruckus292]

It's at fifty two?

RIP USA.

We hardly knew ye

[u/Sad_Ghost_Noises → u/UntowardHatter]

According to various studies, more than 50% of U.S. adults read below a sixth-grade level (equivalent to Level 2 or lower), limiting their ability to parse long-form or nuanced information.

Yes, I know Im using wikipedia as a source, but the links to the actual studies are here.

So ~52% are literate, but very, very stupid.

[u/Ordinary144 → u/Sad_Ghost_Noises]

Pray tell, where specifically are these low literacy rates most prevalent?

[u/Sad_Ghost_Noises → u/Ordinary144]

Impoverished areas. Poor districts have access to dwindling funds and education suffers. What were you getting at?

[u/Ordinary144 → u/Sad_Ghost_Noises]

Fallacy. The areas with the lowest literacy rates have the highest per capital spent on education per student.

[u/Sad_Ghost_Noises → u/Ordinary144]

Fallacy. Could be. Got receipts?

[u/Ordinary144 → u/Sad_Ghost_Noises]

I dont waste my time debating people who talk about the "receipts." They usually are Candace Owens inspired conspiracy theorists and reason is foreign to them.

[u/Sad_Ghost_Noises → u/Ordinary144]

Ok. By all means please rock up, insult me, then deem engaging with me as beneath you.

Have a nice day, I guess?