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Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social |
Reading is important. More people should be supported to read. In the past few years, I've silently witnessed a number of smart people claim that encouraging reading is "elitist." I've quietly fumed and then I launched a micro-press.
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Alicia
@aliciabedul.bsky.social
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I agree, adding that cultures communicate using multiple sign systems, not only textual. You can use ALL the signs to participate, explore ideas, & stand your cultural ground.
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CircusNoBread
@berkeleyeve.bsky.social
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and illiteracy is "empowering"?🤮 vile vile people. good for you❤️🔥
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Patrick Ogle
@paogle.bsky.social
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Smart people? Or university students pretending to be Marxists until they get a job with Monsanto?
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Salem Phoenix
@salemthekit.bsky.social
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I have a feeling I'm gonna get flamed for this, but I honestly get it speaking from experience. If reading is introduced to kids as something "smart" people do and when they grow older they're surrounded by egotistical people bragging about how much they read, then yeah it can feel super elitist.
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Ryan Coyle
@rmc23.bsky.social
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Can’t be in decline if the elevator never went that high to begin with
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Joshua Stephens
@joshuastephens.bsky.social
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Speaking as a kid who spent his first 5yrs in a trailer, hasn’t graduated anything since kindergarten, and now writes/edits professionally… MotherFUCK anyone who says encouraging reading is elitist. I will personally launch them (and the personal branding they rode in on) into the sun.
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弐進
@nisinnohibosi.bsky.social
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yes.michel sandel say so.
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M.W
@mentalausterity.bsky.social
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I just can't see how *anyone* can believe this. I mean, do they consider themselves "Elites?" I know there's no rational reasoning here, but i can't help but wonder. Also, bravo for your response!
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Ryan Wilson
@hailseitan.bsky.social
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They really need to be forcefed the successes of literacy campaigns across socialist revolutions for some of the poorest people on this planet.
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@deadrepublic.bsky.social
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Reading is "elitist"? Reading is a great equalizer!
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Rob of Denver
@ro86nin.bsky.social
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In the 1930s everyone strove for literacy. It was the sign of a free person!! “Smart” people encouraging illiteracy do it so they can take advantage of naive people…
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joqatana
@joqatana.bsky.social
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In 1966 my new school literally told the kid next door to make me read less and play more. I blame every failure of my life on that.
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Heather Rasley
@heatherrasley.bsky.social
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wh-what??
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Persisting
@persistingiam.bsky.social
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Reading via bookmobile is the only thing that got me through an abusive childhood.
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ŠequencedLife
@sequencedlife.bsky.social
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as one does - bravo!
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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot
@sheepbop.bsky.social
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Have you ever been there tho?
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Risu
@risu.bsky.social
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Lord, reading is so good, we need more readers, more reflecting, more imagination
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Wino Cat
@kittieslovewine.bsky.social
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Expose those “smart people”. #knowledgeispower #goreadabook
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R0X🥀🌈
@roxi-d-joyboy.bsky.social
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Bro/sis/fam, what!? Really!? Reading and writing are essential for communication. Gatekeeping either in any way IMO is a tendency towards evil. 😫
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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The inability to read is crippling in today's society. Ironically, encouraging people to not read is elitist because it stratifies society into those who can read and those who can.
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