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No, a lot of the social ills in India, including this one, can be traced back to poor education. And no matter what you say about the US education system, it's
by w1ntermute 14y ago
No, a lot of the social ills in India, including this one, can be traced back to poor education. And no matter what you say about the US education system, it's nowhere near as bad as in India.
- KaoruAoiShiho 14y agoDid you guys even read the article? It cited at least 1 social media hoax that's massively successful, the birther issue.
- trafficlight 14y agoThe birther thing is straight up racism, not education. Maybe a little of both, I suppose.
- icegreentea 14y agoThe hoax in question prays as much on discrimination and "the other" as the birther movement.
- PakG1 14y agoJust a note, I do think you mean preys. It gives quite a different meaning to the sentence. :)
- anamax 14y ago> The birther thing is straight up racism, not education. Birthers think that all Blacks/African-Americans were born in Indonesia?
- prakashk 14y agoIs it racism only when you consider the group as a whole? Can't one be racist when talking about individuals? [To be clear, I am neither supporting nor refuting the GP's claim that the birthers are racist.]
- anamax 14y ago> Is it racism only when you consider the group as a whole? Can't one be racist when talking about individuals? The claim was that racism explains why birthers think that Obama was born in Indonesia. Racism supposedly means "ascribing attributes to individual/group based on their skin color/ethnicity". How are you defining racism such that Birthers believe that Obama was born in Indonesia because of racism/their beliefs about Black people but don't believe that other Black people were born in Indonesia? In terms of actual usage, "racism" is basically code for "I'm a good person, we disagree, therefore you're a bad person".
- noarchy 14y agoI don't recall any calls to ban Twitter over the birther issue, though.