I mentioned this in another thread, but the worst take I've heard this month, possibly ever, is from a coworker. There was a workplace trivia email thing, the answer was Nelson Mandela. Coworker didn't recognize the name, so I explained who Mandela was, used the word apartheid, so coworker asked me to define apartheid too. I called it something like "a brutal system of racial segregation where black people were forced into poverty and put into schools that purposefully didn't work." I said something about barbed wire around the white neighborhoods in South Africa too.

Coworker said "We need that here, now."