George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Never back down, never go along with authoritarians.
François @JuraI never thought USians could be so submissive. Strange times.
derptron@FrancoisPrague @georgetakei We've always longed for the boot. We have "rights", but good luck actually exercising them. As someone who grew up with parents with religious views that said I don't salute the flag...I got to learn first had just how obedient and cowed the American spirit really is. Go burn a flag in protest and someone may actually shoot you.
That's just 90% of the populace. Then a good 40% are just insane.
We're a bunch of religious fanatics that are also massive idolators.
Stephen Elliott~Buckley@crazyeddie @FrancoisPrague @georgetakei
And 54% of adult Americans read at the grade 6 level and below
So literacy is low, but also the critical thinking levels that require deeper literacy
Thanks Reagan
@Maxfieldripken @FrancoisPrague @georgetakei I remember they taught us reading comprehension for like a week in elementary school and being like, "IT LITERALLY SAYS...AND THAT IS WHAT THE TEACHER IS ASKING..." and fuck if it wasn't a lost cause. Like 3 of us got it and the rest decided the teacher was stupid or something. I never forgot it. So far as I can tell, those people did not change when they grew up.
@crazyeddie @FrancoisPrague @georgetakei
Yes, and it actually continues so much. Like I taught high school English for a very long time in suburban Vancouver. It was constantly a process of encouraging curiosity, creating a safe space for kids to challenge assumptions of stuff they thought they knew, the desire to understand more, and the humility to know that you don't know everything. Teenagers have a hard time with humility anyway. But it's doable.