• MintyFresh@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    When I was in the third grade, I had a teacher tell me it was okay we pushed the natives off the land because we made more efficient use of it, and could therefore carry a greater population.

    In the previous grade the teacher passed around a worksheet, and we had to choose which jobs were most suited to what gender.

    Oh what a glorious whitebread bublefuck town I grew up in!

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        4 months ago

        Its weird cuz evolution in Pokemon is more akin to metamorposes or even just basic puberty except theres sometimes 1 extra step XD

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      My second grade teacher taught us the civil war was because of a disagreement over state’s rights.

      The same teacher marked me and a few other students down for completing a subtraction assignment using negative numbers. She explained we were supposed to be confused and write that we couldn’t do it.

      Edit: I forgot one! My third grade teacher marked me down for not knowing how much a hen weighed. It wasn’t a joke. Apparently there was a rule of thumb for estimating chicken weight. Any kids who weren’t raised on a farm missed the question.

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    4 months ago

    Most propaganda is aimed at neurotypical wiring. We are out of tune with it, that gives us a measure of protection.

    It’s one of the worries I have with AI. While I think we are more protected from propaganda than most (since we constantly want to poke at the crack in a story), we are not immune. It’s perfectly possible to shape it to effect us. They just haven’t bothered, since we are a small target. AI makes that a lot easier to do, so we will see more of it.

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    4 months ago

    I feel bad that I wore the free D.A.R.E. propaganda shirts in school because my family was too poor to get me decent clothing.

  • theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world
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    I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance because I was hyperfixated on the Eragon books and it seemed too similar to swearing loyalty to Galbatorix.

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      4 months ago

      it’s literal brainwashing. Americans laugh at the NK people having to praise Dear Daddy, but then every morning in school, they cite the pledge of allegiance. Why would you want to be allied with one of the worst countries in modern history? Fuck that.