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The average person is pretty ill-informed.

• dylan604 5y ago
  Right, which goes along with my comment about lots of people not having a clue to who Lafayette was.
  • mmmpop 5y ago
    I get that, I just prefer to not take too much stock in what a "man on the street" doesn't know about... much of anything really. I just lament that sad state of public education in America generally, and more pertinently how people just think Lafayette was the guy from Hamilton (in some bastardized form, I presume.) I never saw the musical, nor will I, but the man who is almost single-handedly responsible for getting the French to save our asses deserves a bit more renown in my opinion.
    • dylan604 5y ago
      Okay, but you came at me[0] with the "you're joking" line, when you just self-owned admitted that a large population of the US would not know who the man was. I never said that I didn't know, but yet you challenged my statement like it was wrong while now admitting that it's sadly probably accurate. [0] not saying it was hostile, just challenging something you deep down knew but didn't want to admit
    • thaumasiotes 5y ago
      "He's very well known in the US, except by the people who live there" isn't much of a position. If you want to talk about whether he's well known, you're stuck with the fact that nobody knows who he is. Those aren't distinct concepts.