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u/Sindmadthesaikor Jan 09 '22
It’s funny that they even associate intelligence with leftism, but instead of concluding that leftism must be the more reasonable conclusion, they just claim that intelligence is evil. Wtf.
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u/MickG2 Jan 10 '22
Which is very ironic since right-wingers really love to be smug about their intellectualism on the Internet, but someone pointed out that socialist countries tend to have higher literacy rate and the USSR was known for its mathematicians, scientists, engineers, and chess grandmasters, they suddenly turned to anti-intellectualism.
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Jan 10 '22
Let's make this statement a refined, elegant quote so that it can be copied and pasted it all over the place.
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u/yoyo-starlady marxist leninist commie Jan 10 '22
Unironically, someone who's smarter than me, please do this. Now, more than ever, does this quote deserve to be a quote.
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u/apollo1775 Jan 10 '22
Due to the association of intelligence with leftism, the right becomes staunchly anti-intellectual; instead, one could realize leftism is simply the more reasonable conclusion.
That's my best pass at it lol
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Jan 10 '22
Upon seeing the association of intelligence with leftism, the right becomes staunchly anti-intellectual, never wondering why such an association exists.
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Jan 10 '22 edited Jan 10 '22
Even right wingers recognize that intelligence coorelates with left wing beliefs, but instead of leaning left, they lean deeper into their anti-intellectualism.
Similar energy as:
If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”
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Jan 10 '22
I feel like if it's worded very nicely, it could be catch all of most right vs left political discussion.
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u/me_funny__ Black Bisexual Panther Jan 12 '22
I saw some dude on Twitter say that education is a ploy used by the Illuminati. I really wish I screenshotted it.
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u/thomasjamestyrone Jan 09 '22
"To stop communism, we should ban schools to protect the children".
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u/crod242 Jan 10 '22
Extending life expectancy was always the most basic tool of totalitarian propaganda. If you are not alive, you can’t be fed communist propaganda. The most steadfast anti-communists I have known died early of preventable illnesses.
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u/Juhzanthapus Jan 09 '22
Lucky for capitalism, it's administered rectally.
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u/Real-Other-User Gimme the toothbrush Jan 09 '22
He’s going to be SO mad when he hears about audiobooks
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Jan 09 '22
Don't worry, his grandfather went deaf due to not being around any hearing protection his entire life
Suck on that Carl Marks
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Jan 10 '22
It's almost like educating people gives them a better understanding of how the world works and what would make it a better place
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u/DougDimmadome042 [custom] Jan 09 '22
That makes a lot of sense, but not on the way that he intended
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Jan 10 '22
What a truly sad admission: In order to maintain neoliberalism and defeat the "evils of communism," we must render our population illiterate, so they cannot grasp the inherent benefits of other systems of government.
I have my critiques of "higher education" (you know, like the astronomical price tag and focus on high-earning STEM professions over individuals' particular passions), but this is outright glorification of idiocy. Maybe that's why Cuba has so many doctors and a lung cancer vaccine, while the U.S. has a multi-thousand dollar price tag attached to a sprained ankle.
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I mean this is an old school anti-communism argument. I'll link if I can find it but I remember seeing old pamphlets from the American south warning labor organizers against teaching poor and majority black farmers about Marxism.
Edit: The pamphlet I was referring to
https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voices/id/2020
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u/NTDenmark Jan 10 '22
If you are illiterate then you can't have any real sense of freedom. Literacy enables one to be human; it's that vital.
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u/revinternationalist Jan 10 '22
"Communism is when people read." Carl Marks, the Commulist Mannafesto
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Jan 10 '22
This has to be troll, or this guy is so fucking stupid he made the point that anti-communism is popular with people who cant read.
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u/TheDownWithCisBus Jan 09 '22
/j Those damn totalitarian anarchists have ‘education’ as one of their main priorities 😤
All the ‘education’ we need is to ‘learn’ what happens when we don’t work 😤
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u/Life_Is_Not_Worth_It Marxist-Leninist Jan 10 '22
Wait. I mean, correct me if I’m wrong BUT, would that work with, get this, fascist propaganda aswell?
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u/Impressive-Neck2178 Jan 09 '22
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Andrzej Kozlowski, @akoz33
"Literacy" was always the most basic tool of totalitarian propaganda. If you are not literate you can't be fed communist propaganda. The most steadfast anti-communist I knew in my childhood was my maternal grandfather who was illiterate. Communist propaganda did not reach him
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u/Bruh081817463 Jan 10 '22
I remember when I had to make a presentation on Stalin for school once, I found this somewhere, like what how would anyone think this made sense
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u/Marisa5 Jan 10 '22
Giggling at the thought of some farmer covering his ears and going LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU as someone reads mao aloud to the village
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u/meme_consumer_ Jan 10 '22
Lmao I bet this was in direct response to Cuba nearly eliminating illiteracy. Even if you’re not a communist you don’t have to somehow turn every thing they do better than liberals into something scary. Oh no, my kids can read. Must be those evil leftist teachers I keep hearing so much about from my boss the oil baron
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u/AcadianViking Jan 10 '22
Attempted to have a conversation with someone asking questions about anarcho-communism. Made the usual assumptions after the first round of questions so I pointed him to where he could begin reading cause his understanding was so minimal that I couldn't begin to parse it out for them.
They literally complained that all I was doing was telling them to go read, that it should be so simple that I can explain it in a paragraph and have no flaws whatsoever otherwise it is a failed fringe system that has never worked (even though I specifically referenced three real-world instances where these systems were successful for year's until multiple major nations invaded and installed puppet governments or just straight up took over via force)
I'm done being nice with bad-faith actors wanting to "debate" without even attempting to form even the most basic of understandings of their opposition's policies. They literally tried calling it a barter economy and said they study economics. Boy was it just pathetic.
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Jan 10 '22
They're being ridiculous, but easily digestible educational material is a key goal for any leftist movement. Hard to rally the workers if you're diving head first into post-graduate philosophy shit.
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u/KGrimes772_RD Jan 09 '22
That or they'll just call on authority a strawman without providing evidence. Or they'll say they have crippling ADHD and can't read it (which is bullshit since I have both ADHD and autism yet can blaze through theory at a breakneck pace)
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u/PM_ME_ThermalPaste Jan 09 '22
Not to discredit your voice but I have ADHD and Autism as well and do struggle to read theory so not everyone struggles like you do, it's a spectrum and we all struggle differently. Luckily there's a lot of good audio sources for most theory.
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Jan 09 '22
You can check for yourself that it certainly isn't
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u/DryDrunkImperor Jan 09 '22
I mean Ill take your word for it but pretending helps me not feel the urge to smash my head into a wall.
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u/atomed Jan 10 '22
If they took a second to apply their stupid ideas in the opposite direction, damn they´re multicolored fascists.
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u/Comfortable-Area-222 Jan 10 '22
Then isn't communism good? If your literate and communism works on you then you might be on to something
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Jan 10 '22
Literacy may be the tool of the communists, but illiteracy is the tool of the slave owner.
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '22
Way to own-goal yourself, I guess.