• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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      Idunno anything about this guy, but for some folks they just weren’t taught early enough. You can learn to read at any age, but no amount of motivation can match an early education

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      4 hours ago

      It is easy to have motivation to skateboard across america when you don’t have enough education to understand what doing that means.

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      7 hours ago

      Most likely functionally illiterate and not 100% “I can’t read,” but I’ve overestimated instagrammers before

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        Most people are illiterate. Literacy is a skill with levels and most people don’t actually ever reach the level required to be a fully functional person.

        This meme is a great example. Most people don’t actually reach Ogre’s level of literacy. Yeah, it’s played for laughs in the fact that Ogre is smarter than the average human, but Ogre is also completely correct about the level of literacy we should expect of people, in a perfect world.

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      13 minutes ago

      Illiterate refers to both being able to read basic words all the way up to reading comprehenson. Equally possible he simply cannot understand what he reads and is anti-intellectual as that seems to be on the rise in the US.