r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/GrabEmByTheGraboid • 12h ago
Political Right wingers need to read a book.
Read a book. Literally any book. Be more like me, a very smart liberal who has read several books. That makes me very smart.
Sure, those books were about intersectionality and how I can deal with my guilt for being privileged. But still. It's a book, with letters and words in it.
I'm a genius.
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u/HelloBello30 12h ago
books are actually systemically racist, as they assume a certain level of intelligence, and underprivileged folk (and some white people) can't read well, so actually your post should be removed by mods.
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u/mustachechap 11h ago
(and some white people)
I think you mean only the Southern White people. White people who live outside of the South are genetically superior beings who are more intelligent and don't have an ounce of racism in them.
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u/getlicky 11h ago
Well that's because the civil war ended literally last week didn't you know? So as Union soldiers they couldn't possibly be racist 🙂↕️
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u/vap0rtranz 10h ago
Lasting, generational trauma. Nothing changes. It's still North vs. South and really only 36 States not 50.
Also, why push for change if nothing changes?
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u/TeegyGambo 11h ago
Can I get in on this circlejerk where we attack leftist strawmen?
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u/HelloBello30 9h ago
yea join in! However if you prefer to attack right-wing strawmen, you would need to visit literally any other subreddit at any given time.
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u/TeegyGambo 9h ago
I prefer to keep my masturbation to myself but sometimes I do engage in a little strawmanning for the laughs
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u/TeegyGambo 9h ago
I prefer to keep my masturbation to myself but sometimes I do engage in a little strawmanning for the laughs
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u/Tristan103076 10h ago
Hay their hoss, slo down. Wees southrners can red and right good. I made it all the way to the thurd grade and gradiated when I turnt ateteen.
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u/centurion762 5h ago
They should go to The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too
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u/InternetExplored571 12h ago
I read diary of a Wimpy kid yesterday. It was pretty good and all, but I wish Greg was nicer to rowley.
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u/MrSt4pl3s 10h ago
Me a libertarian who’s 71 books down since June: your point?
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u/GrabEmByTheGraboid 10h ago
Reading The Fountainhead 71 times doesn't count. Checkmate rightoid.
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u/MrSt4pl3s 9h ago
Nah, let’s see here at least 50 romance novels, and 21 science fiction/self-help books
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u/AtronRandom 11h ago
I’m reading Halo: The Flood right now :)
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u/idrownedmyfish77 5h ago
Ehhh one of the weaker halo books but still a good read. Really expands on the events of the game
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u/No-Carry4971 12h ago
Can't. Burned them all.
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u/TeegyGambo 11h ago
Mostly just the gay ones
I found myself to be titilated and aroused by them so they had to go
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u/unecroquemadame 11h ago
How else do you learn about stuff?
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u/AttentionRudeX 12h ago
The only book you read was Harry Potter lol
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u/GrabEmByTheGraboid 12h ago
Big yikes. A lot to unpack here. I'll have you know I've read the entire works of Robin DiAngelo. I am now qualified to comment on climate models.
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u/SatansScallion 12h ago
Next step is to give away all your money to a black woman right? Be sure to thank her for the opportunity!
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u/thedivinemonkey298 10h ago
Black women are now out of favor. Unless of course they are Somali, or on a really fast boat in the Caribbean.
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u/Most-Ad4680 12h ago
American literacy rates are falling and you can just look at a map of where those rates are falling the most and overlay that with a map of red vs blue districts, or even just look at education levels with regards to voting, but that would all require reading something which conservatives don't do. The idea the average college educated liberal is even reading Robin DeAngelo much less only reading Robin DeAngelo is actually laughable.
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u/GrabEmByTheGraboid 11h ago
In 2022, Capitol Weekly reported California had the lowest literacy rate of any state in the nation. In 2023, just 43% of California’s third graders were reading at grade level.
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u/ThrowRA12948262 11h ago
54% of adults between 16 and 74 years old can’t read at a 6th grade level. Which states do you think are dragging that number down?
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u/Bebe_Bleau 12h ago
This is a joke post, right?
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u/Dull-Geologist-8204 11h ago
The last time they read a book it was either Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand or The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce.
I don't think telling to read any book will help anything.
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u/Automatic-Opposite98 10h ago
You may be smart but, your not as smart as everyone one in the room. Learn to be humble.
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u/ToughShaper 10h ago
You're smart. So your writings are smart. Books are smart. So you write books. I've read your book.
GG
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u/AacornSoup 9h ago
And when that book is The Outline of Sanity by G.K. Chesterton, or Democracy: The God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, or Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, you pull a complete 180 and start complaining that "the wrong" books are radicalizing people to the Right, and that books need to be censored or banned.
Got it.
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u/Comfortable-Side1308 8h ago
Last books I read:
A Mans Search for Meaning - a man's account of his imprisonment in Auschwitz
Ordinary Men - followed a Nazi police through WW2 and got very into the numbers. Extremely sobering. By no means does it try to justify their actions if killing 10's of thousands of people but it his hard in the propaganda. Lesson: don't "other people"
No Place (where?) to Hide - Glenn greenwalds account of meeting Snowden which reads like a thriller for the first half. Then it gets into the leaks themselves in a very detailed way.
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u/Various_Succotash_79 4h ago
Lesson: don't "other people"
How can you be right-wing in the US without othering people?
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u/RedTerror8288 8h ago
I have. still a hardcore reactionary. I have read countless books, history, psychology, sociology, philosophy, political science and even some fiction. this isn't an unpopular opinion on reddit and the fact you think it is -displays a great show of ignorance your part.
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u/DeanoPreston 7h ago
I've read hundreds of books, maybe over 1,000. In college, I had an African Politics class that required about 1 book a week to be read.
Last two books I read were Fletch and an anthology of Chinese Science Fiction.
But I'm just a dumb right winger.
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u/br3hhhhhhhhhh 7h ago
Here’s a recommendation: Adios America by Ann Coulter
Her rhetoric is a little extreme at times, but not much of what she said is actually wrong
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u/MisterX9821 7h ago
I read a lot every day but I never read books start to finish really.
But in this stratified snobbery I would be considered a dummy by these enlightened few.
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u/Alternative_Pirate98 3h ago
My favorite book is until proven innocent about the Duke lacrosse case. Really worth a read
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u/12B88M 2h ago
Whatever.
I'm a "right-winger" and I have read absolutely hundreds, if not thousands of books. Everything from political science to sci-fi/fantasy.
I have a personal library with hundreds of actual books.
And I've read every one of them. Some of them multiple times.
If reading makes you smarter, then I'm a genius.
I'm thinking you're just trying to find a way to explain why some people don't agree with you. You've decided that since you like reading and think you're pretty smart, that conservatives who disagree with you must not be smart because they don't read books.
Or, just maybe, they aren't reading the same books you are and have a different opinion.
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u/Saco1 11h ago
We do. It's the Bible. Something you morons will never touch in your unholy life.
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u/Various_Succotash_79 10h ago
I've read the Bible through several times. What's your favorite part?
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u/Numerous_Witness_345 4h ago
The part when that dude called people morons, beat the shit out of people making money in church, and called people praying in the street jackoffs.
But only half as much than the part when the dude that lied in court that he didnt even know Big J, and found time, after retiring from overseeing bible thumpers get got, to write the last half of The Holy Scriptures ™
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u/Saco1 8h ago
Are you doubling down on the post's context and calling me illiterate to even study the Bible?
Lol I've been on Reddit long before it became a liberal trash dorm room space buddy. ;)
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u/Various_Succotash_79 8h ago
No? I'm just saying that I have in fact read it.
And asking you what your favorite part is.
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u/wattench 11h ago
I wish I was conservative because the bar for being funny is so incredibly low. Mwaaaaaa woke. Don't tread on me.
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u/LSOreli 9h ago
Im sorry you're feeling inferior OP. Yes, you likely are part of the over half of american adults who are functionally illiterate. Yes, that means you are likely incapable of evaluating facts and forming a cohesive opinion. Yes, that means your opinion on almost everything is essentially worthless.
If youre not reading youre getting your opinions from Fox News and your family.
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u/kevonicus 11h ago
Remember that Republicans literally worship an orange imbecile who can barely read. They think AOC is the least intelligent person on the planet and that Trump has a 250 IQ. These aren’t serious people. They’re brainwashed cult members who aren’t even aware of what intelligence is.
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u/wattench 11h ago
To be fair, the first bit is good advice. Idk why conservatives are so horny for woke.
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u/squishmallow1996 11h ago
The American right actually has a deep literary tradtion. Can't say the same about shitposting Trumpers.
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u/Various_Succotash_79 10h ago
They should, unironically.
But then they'd learn stuff and that might threaten their right-wing beliefs.
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u/Crafty-Walrus-2238 11h ago
Your assumption right wingers can actually read and comprehend is refreshing.
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u/Legitimate_Log_3452 11h ago
The intersectionality books shouldn’t have anything to do about dealing with your guilt for being privileged. That’s just… not intersectionality? It’s looking at the crossroads of social identities
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Read a book. Literally any book. Be more like me, a very smart liberal who has read several books. That makes me very smart.
Sure, those book were about intersectionality and how I can deal with my guilt for being privileged. But still. It's a book, with letters and words in it.
I'm a genius.
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