• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      opinion: individualism is a plague and the generational war is a distraction

      people should be able to have their own sense of choice and identity.

      people should also realise that together we can make it so that everyone can reach their full potential, making society better.

      pay your fucking taxes

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      2 months ago

      There can be more than one issue, of which both of these are a problem.

      The boomers and the rediculously wealthy have the same mindset: fuck you, I’ve got mine

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      2 months ago

      Jokes on you, I pay for schools and am still surrounded by dumb people!

      How unbearable would it be if they received no education, I can’t imagine.

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        The underfunding or undercutting of education is a big part of why we’re in the current situation

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          Yup, stupid people vote Republican. Their war on education will only end when their party is dead, burned, buried, and pissed on.

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          I’ve heard this argument before. It seems to neglect how much modern libertarian ideology is packed into the modern school curriculum.

          Conservatives scream about education being Marxist and Woke. Thousands of teachers are purged. Curriculum gets ratcheted further to the right. And by the time your own kids are going to school, they’re asking why history textbooks are venerating Newt Gingrich, bio textbooks include disclaimers decrying evolution and germ theory, and math class is just 8 hours a week of long division exercises the whole semester.

          But you can’t just pretend we’re living in a Shepard Tone of a society, because we’re here now in spite of “superior” education we received a generation or two ago.

          We can’t just blame this on “schools make you smart/dumb” because so much of your modem understanding of the world is formed after you’ve graduated.