If you call yourself a leftist but you’re bothered by “Death to AmeriKKKa”, then you don’t hate AmeriKKKa ENOUGH.

amerikkka qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

  • fort_burp@feddit.nlEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    WARNING: THIS IS NOT A MEME

    Swear to god, Americans are not literate and that is especially true of ICE thugs. I had some inclination before but after seeing the stats, oh boy.

    • On average, 79% of U.S. adults nationwide are literate in 2024.
    • 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.
    • 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

    The explosive Daily Mail report found that the administration’s $50,000 signing bonus attracted droves of unqualified recruits — high school grads who can “barely read or write,” overweight candidates with doctor’s notes saying they’re unfit, and even applicants with pending criminal charges.

    The report exposed how Immigration and Customs Enforcement took a blowtorch to hiring standards, with one Department of Homeland Security official blasting: “We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English.”

    • Moidialectica [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      i refuse to believe this it can not be this low, how can the education system fail this bad, or is the average American even worse off than I first thought, that education becomes an afterthought?

  • MF_COOM [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    7 days ago

    I got banned from c/lit once for posting the NYT nonfic bestseller list as evidence of the braindead condition of the Yankee mind lol

  • LeninWeave [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    And this isn’t a criticism of Americans who can’t read because they were failed by the education system of their vile country. This is a criticism of Americans who can’t read because they can’t see past their own chauvinism.

    Edit: damn, lol, double-commented with my lemmy.ml and Hexbear accounts. Oops.

  • LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    And this isn’t a criticism of Americans who can’t read because they were failed by the education system of their vile country. This is a criticism of Americans who can’t read because they can’t see past their own chauvinism.