my co-worker, a british woman who moved here (USA) with her husband, is a perfectly nice person. i have no problems with her, but talking to her opened my eyes to how insanely ignorant and brainwashed your average person is

she’s the definition of just a normal ass regular ass type of person. progressive but not overtly political and just kinda floating through existence. which is fine.

we were talking and she was saying all of this negative stuff about china. i of course told her my point of view which is that im very very pro china and don’t think anything she was saying was actually proven. she then went on to say maybe im right and that she doesnt get why china is bad but japan is our ally “because its the same country isnt it?” so this tells me many normal people are walking around with negative opinions about china meanwhile they literally dont even know china isnt a part of japan.

she then went on to clarify, “wait maybe im thinking of korea. which is the bad one again?” IF YOU THINK SOMETHING IS SUPPOSEDLY BAD, SHOULDNT YOU KNOW WHAT THE BAD THING IS? how is that not a light that goes off for her and makes her consider “how tf do i think a place is bad when i literally don’t even know what place im talking about?”

i just said “well it depends on your perspective” and then changed the conversation to be about the tv show Tulsa King lmao

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    I don't really think this has to be an ableist thing at all. Americans are kept ignorant, plain and simple. They aren't dumber people inherently, but they live in a country that has absolutely 0 incentive to train a talented workforce when all the crap they consume is imported from places where hard workers are paid two orders of magnitude less. There is no consequence for the imperialist class if most Americans can't read above a 5th grade level or point to Paris on a map. They can just get engineers from abroad, and clerical workers in the PMC are drawn from the upper class to become a richer consumer base to keep those cheap imports circulating. Hell, even the arms or pharmaceutical industries which has a lot of tricky clearance requirements makes extensive use of cheaply educated Puerto Rican engineers.