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Katrags Feb 26, 2023

@aintist @QasimRashid
Probably because they are not well educated and don't know the difference.
40 % of white evangelicals are functionally illiterate as of 2015.
54% of adult Americans read at a 6th grade level as of 2021.
These people don't know and don't care about the difference between a blastocyst, a feotus, and a baby.

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Smitha 🌸🌋🎻Feb 26, 2023

@Katrags You're underestimating them. Most of the people at the January 6 riot were middle-class, middle-income, gainfully-employed folks. A lot of Republicans have a college degree and beyond.

And LOTS LOTS LOTS of right-wingers get abortions, while still assuming their reasoning is the exception compared to all those sluts and whores and baby-killers (obvious sarcasm), and still working to deny everyone else those same rights.

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Katrags

@smitha Actually, most of the J6 were only middle class due to being grandfathered into the union system decades ago. The vast majority are poorly educated with barely a high school degree.
As for the College educated, there are a LOT of highly/ poorly educated Americans, depending on where/when they went to school. I can think of 3 retired teachers I have worked with who could not read 6th grade level. This is due to the 20th century education system that rewarded effort, not mastery.