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Can confirm as a substitute.
Personally, I blame chan culture becoming more and more mainstream, so it's "cool" to be stupid.
Thankfully, I've had some really sweet, hardworking kids but it sometimes takes me aback when I'm teaching a sixth grade class and they have no idea what a 'vertebrate' is. Like come on, I learned that from Spongebob.
Personally, I blame chan culture becoming more and more mainstream, so it's "cool" to be stupid.
It's absurd to act like channers are responsible for rather than another product of America's long-running anti-intellectual tradition, which you can pretty easily date back over a century with philistine panderers like Theodore Roosevelt through to Ronald Reagan and now Trump.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Man, liberal me was in for a rude awakening when I learned the truth about him.
: "Oh wow, an environmentalist who calls himself a progressive and is also both the nerd and the jock at the same time? Based!"One radicalization later
: "Oh..."Yeah, this is the result of decades of work by right-wing groups to destroy public education and sell the "cure" in charter/private schools. The countries with the best education systems, unsurprisingly, have extremely rigorous standards set by the government and in many cases the methods and materials are produced by the governments, as well. The US's public/private brainworms destroys everything it touches. Which, critical support and all for destroying America, but millions of kids are absolutely fucked by no fault of their own because capitalists wanted a dumb, complacent army of labor.
Which, critical support and all for destroying America, but millions of kids are absolutely fucked by no fault of their own
Personally speaking, I'll reserve my critical support for adventurists and religious zealots who happen to pick good targets, rather than the masters of the state fucking themselves over in a long-term fashion for medium-term profit.
Yeah, that's a bad take from me. It does seem like the capitalists are really trying to accelerate the decline of the US empire, though. Guess they feel like they looted all they could out of the global south and now it's time to go for the imperial core.
so it's "cool" to be stupid
Perhaps it's escalated, but that's definitely not new.
Or even really a notable part of chan culture tbh
The sixth grade my partner teaches didn't know what language they spoke in France. None of them knew English-speaking countries besides England and the US.
Seriously, if I ever get my shit together. I hope I can become a content creator that can engage gen alpha in a way that both the enshittified internet and the modern public schooling system has failed them. Especially as someone who holds a teacher-adjacent role, I know they're not stupid. They have been collectively wronged.