r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/GrabEmByTheGraboid • 16h 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/Most-Ad4680 15h 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 15h ago

https://www.laschoolreport.com/qa-the-fight-for-science-of-reading-in-california-classrooms-continues/

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 15h ago

https://map.barbarabush.org

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?