• alvvayson@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Me neither. Apparently, some schools teach this, but most only learn this in college.

    Which is why the culture war so often involves College educated van non-College educated.

    I’m on the College side of the culture war, but we must kind of acknowledge the truth that we had extra education that the other side did not.

    Some of them might resent us for it, some of us might be snobby about it.

    But at root, that’s where the culture disparity stems from.

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      11 months ago

      You’re being too kind. Many of them are anti-education. That’s why they’re spending huge amount of time burning books about gay people and banning abortion, and far less time trying to reduce school shootings or paedophilia in mainstream churches.

      To paraphrase the old adage: you can’t educate someone out of a position that they didn’t educate themselves into.

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        11 months ago

        The number of times people that have denied the literal dictionary definition of gender when I place it in front of them… with linked sources… from multiple dictionaries… often ones those people chose themselves…

        Education about the definition of these words is important, but it does nothing to combat the mainstream conservative position that “the dictionary is wrong and woke because… idk - the Jews want them transes to rape babies or something.” The only way to combat that entrenched, willful ignorance is with a big rock.