• Techpriest2@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Very telling (and not without reason) that just reading the headline creates an automatic assumption that this occurred in a US “red” state.

    • kboy101222@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I definitely read the headline and thought “please don’t be my state again”

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        1 year ago

        Around 40% of Indian politicians are only educated up to school (stat might have changed), and the ruling party is quite dystopian in silencing narratives that go against it.

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          Sorry, but what does “up to school” mean? (I am American, and many of our education groups are schools.) Is that school prior to college, ending near age 18, or something else?

          Edit: thank you, I now understand

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          1 year ago

          I would guess that most republicans politicians are actually pretty highly educated. Trump even went to ivy league schools. They value it, just not for their voters.

          • FadoraNinja@lemmy.worldB
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            1 year ago

            Not really. They use Ivy League schools more for making connections with other wealthy people and getting jobs through those connections than actually learning anything.

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        The US republican/trump/conservative (usually known as Nazi’s) followers are historically against education. These people are currently promoting a religious inquisition to eliminate books and curriculum in schools that they feel do not align with their hate based religious and intolerant beliefs. Teachers and librarians are being physically threatened and fired for refusing to comply with the book bans and twisted educational mandates. The politicians that populate the groups I mentioned are not considered smart themselves (like stating wind generators were a threat because they would use up all the wind eventually) so advising children to vote for educated politicians threatens their one and only goal, the retention and accumulation of more power.

        • uis@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Funny thing: in early years of Russian Federation “red state” meant southern pro-communism pro-education/healthcare/pension/science funding state.

      • zaphod@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Majority of users on lemmy are probably americans by now and they assume everything is about their country.