There’s a reason why slaveowners prevented their slaves from learning on their own.
There’s a reason both USSR and PRC took measures to simplify their respective alphabets and grammars, plus measures to ensure teaching former slaves to read.
“Мы не рабы, рабы не мы” and all
The Bolsheviks also took care of orphans after the First World War and the Civil War, because they needed people loyal to the state. If the they really wanted freedom, they would have left these orphans to their fate and let them become marginals and bandits.
Hello, fellow Anatolian!
Even if you accept that communism = bad, isn’t this a little like saying “my grandpa never had to worry about misunderstanding the order of operations because he always skipped algebra class?”
My parents both graduated high school in the late 70s and didn’t know about order of operation
Somebody please turn PEMDAS into a Stalin acronym
Such a classic!
A masterpiece.
from the creators of “women were forced to be scientists”
I’m not sure if I should engage with it as bait or as an earnest take because it’s terrible either way. Like if it’s earnest it’s self-evidently terrible but if this is some bit it’s towing extremely close to an actual belief system of ‘i don’t want to read theory, it will brainwash me’
I’m running into a lot of libs on lemmy.ml that really seem to believe in the cooties theory of ideas, communist or otherwise.
Yesterday someone refused to watch a five minute intro cartoon to Manufacturing Consent because it has the Al Jazeera logo in the corner.
I’m inclined to believe this too.
“I won’t watch propaganda!”
What are you afraid of?!
Possibly cognitive dissonance.
Oh.
I mean… Yeah. Fair.
Alternatively, you could tell them “yes you do,” but they probably won’t believe you.
Media literacy is a tough nut to crack. When someone avoids critical thinking and is so propagandized that they can’t recognize propaganda they are fed, I’m not sure there is any way to get through to them.
Some people are so comfortable in the system and enjoy the privileges it provides them that any efforts to explain how the system hurts others is a waste of time.
Good points.
“the cooties theory of ideas” is such an accurate phrase
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I think a Cubano man once also said the same about his grandfather, I hope that X post is a joke innit?
I could could go for a Cubano from Panera Bread right now!
…Oh.
Oh my goodness this person is genuinely brain-dead.
This but unironically. EDIT: I mean the title, not what the guy is saying. I posted this before even opening the contents.
No.
