• shalafi@lemmy.world
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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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      1 day ago

      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.