• MarigoldPuppyFlavors@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well that is where societies get to. Being educated or uneducated becomes equivalent to a political stance. There are plenty of examples of educators getting murdered by governments, sometimes en masse.

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      1 year ago

      Pol Pot took it a step further and murdered anyone who wore glasses, because wearing glasses was seen as being educated.

      Authoritarians of every type hate the educated, because the educated often hate authoritarianism.

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      1 year ago

      What’s more concerning is when a society is populated by people who have take the most facile understanding of a position, and then go about confidently as if they understand it. Like, say, if a news article has a rage porn headline and then people don’t read it to understand what actually was going on but make comments on websites as if there was no nuance to the subject whatsoever. … Very concerning.

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      1 year ago

      The CCP didn’t massacre a bunch of uneducated citizens in Tiananmen Square.