Of nine leisure activities, visiting a library is the one Americans did most frequently in the past year, followed by attending movies and live sporting events.
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The person you said was "repulsed by poors" said nothing about gambling and they said nothing about the kinds of people that go to libraries. They shared (what appears to be) an inaccurate statistic on American literacy.
Nah, that’s completely true. There is absolutely no fucking way Americans are visiting the library that often. Most Americans can barely read. You want me to believe that in a country where 21% of people are literally illiterate and the rest can maybe read as well as a fifth grader, the people are visiting libraries twice as often as the movies? Yeah, sure.
This genuinely doesn't strike you as disdainful of working people? Making up garbage statistics to mock the idea of people going to the library?
No, not really. It strikes me as disdainful of America. I also don't think it's mocking the idea of people going to the library, it's mocking the idea of America liking something good. Misguided or not, I think you're assuming a lot about another person from very little and in an extremely negative way.
The person you said was "repulsed by poors" said nothing about gambling and they said nothing about the kinds of people that go to libraries. They shared (what appears to be) an inaccurate statistic on American literacy.
This genuinely doesn't strike you as disdainful of working people? Making up garbage statistics to mock the idea of people going to the library?
No, not really. It strikes me as disdainful of America. I also don't think it's mocking the idea of people going to the library, it's mocking the idea of America liking something good. Misguided or not, I think you're assuming a lot about another person from very little and in an extremely negative way.