Tbf a lot of people just want a petty bourgeois vacation.

I’ve been on a socia media break, but I’ll post some memes.

  • SSJ2Marx
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    9 months ago

    I mean you also can't escape the abysmal state of political education in this country. My high school government class was mandatory and basically wall to wall propaganda - and then when I took polysci in college I was literally taught "socialism is when the government does stuff". Most people who don't have the urge to keep digging and learning about politics are going to end their education about it somewhere between those two classes, having learned nothing.

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Oh yeah, political education in the US is oversimplified warmongering dross. And the vilification of anything anti-capitalist that is formed as an organized system is a real problem in the way people get taught politically. Far too many people who will say stuff like "communism sounds nice on paper, but in practice, it was just people pretending to care and then becoming dictators." Or they'll say that it's "idealistic" when the reality is that it's an obnoxiously scientific exchange between theory and practice and is in opposition to notions of purely "striving to be morally better" as a means of achieving meaningful change.

      It's far too common in the US for people to be terrified of nations they've never set foot in and think they know better than entire peoples and cultures they've never met because they read a few news headlines that said what the situation is supposedly like.

    • xkyfal18@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Oh, definitely. While I don't live in the US (I'm Portuguese) and we never really touched politics in depth in High School (we talked about it briefly in Philosophy class), I can only imagine what's like in other countries.

      Also, when you start attending high school in Portugal, you can choose between a science course or humanities [is that the right word?] course. I chose the first option, so that might be why I never really had any politics class in high school.

      Lastly, for clarification, I was talking mostly about the average person. Most people (at least from what I've seen) that aren't interested in taking polysci in college tend to avoid engaging with political content or talk about it as a whole.