• Seleni@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    A third do.

    Another third ignores it because their favorite tv show is on, and hey, they’re white and nothing’s happened to them yet, so obviously everything is fine and those protesters are just overreacting.

    And the final third looks at it and thinks ‘That’s my dictator! Attaboy!’

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      2 days ago

      You’re leaving out a serious chunk of ignorant Americans. Most of us are illiterate, can’t follow along with a novel kinda illiterate.

      My wife has only been here a couple of years. Before she met me and started looking at the news she thought Trump was a fine man.

      Stop the “man on the street” and ask him what he knows about what we talk about around here, daily news, he won’t have a clue.

      And finally, Fox News is the most popular media in the United States. And I don’t wish to hear any hate for Fox from people who don’t actually watch it. They’re far more subtle than we give them credit for. They hardly ever lie!

      • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.world
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        you have a strange definition of illiteracy. I spent a fair amount of my time working in poverty an literacy education. that “most” you define as illiterate would have to be approximately defined as “does not have a bachelors degree” for your numbers to be even close to accurate. it’s closer to 0.5-1%, and that depends on whether we are talking exclusively about English literacy.