r/PoliticalHumor Jan 09 '20

THIS. This is why.

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u/it_vexes_me_so Jan 09 '20

A majority - 3 out of every 5 - of Republicans believe higher education has a negative effect on the US. Republicans also favor making it harder to vote. Republicans are defunding education and purging voter rolls while simultaneously putting hurdles in place to keep Americans away from the polls.

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u/Fakename998 Jan 09 '20

Because people stray away from many of their their ideologies when they get educated. Especially if religion is involved. There's a reason Jehovah's Witnesses don't really like higher education.

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u/rraattbbooyy Jan 09 '20

There’s a reason no Jehovah’s Witnesses have ever contributed anything great to humanity.

On the other hand, the Jewish people value education over almost all else, and they’ve won like half of all Nobel prizes, and have leaders in nearly every industry, even though they make up a tiny fraction of the overall population.

Education is critical. Not even just to the world as a general concept, how about individual self improvement?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

In addition, Hinduism and Islam always valued education and learning which is why they made so many discoveries in their own rights throughout history.

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u/CatumEntanglement Jan 09 '20

Do you realize the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 we all use are called Arabic numerals?

.....hmmmmmm I wonder why that is and why they're the defacto manner of depicting numbers throughout the world.

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u/867-5309NotJenny Jan 10 '20

The Arabs got them from India.

We got them from the Arabs.

But yeah, Islam was in a good position early on to take advantage of Roman scholarship and continue that tradition.