Why are Americans so stunningly ignorant?

RightSideNews.com ^ | 11 Nov., 2014 | Bruce Deitrick Price

[JRandomFreeper]

I may wind up doing that. Daughter may not talk to me in 2015, but in 2040, it will be a funny conversation at Thanksgiving.

/johnny

[Responsibility2nd]

I loved Breaking Bad. I want the Gus Fring Leggo character.

[reasonisfaith]

Answer: he was educated by a systom sabotaged by communists

[reasonisfaith]

ultimately the communists are the stupidest of all

[21twelve]

“..aren’t nearly as important as the whys...”

Agreed, all those dates I knew back in high school don’t mean much now. But not knowing the order of the two major wars on our land is huge. Especially that one was in large part an attempt to resolve issues not fully taken care of after the first one, as well as abuses of matters that had been resolved after the first one.

[discostu]

But you never know what got the person into that. Maybe they’d just been hip deep in diffy-q and then something comes up and their brain just didn’t want to put the bits together. We’ve all had something come at us and we’re there thinking “I know this but right now I can’t make those words make sense”. The brain definitely has gears, and much like a semi-truck shifting them the wrong way has bad results.

[X-spurt]

Heck a friggin cook prolly has more critical thinking skills than anyone that’s even walked by the Whiteyhut since 2008.

Seriously, I thought you knew. Now I have to go back to Don’tgiveashit level.

[publius911]

Why are Americans so stunningly ignorant?

Short answer : egalitarianism, taken into the absurd.

Every time I think of a functional moron, idiot, imbecile or drooling senile human being being entitled to vote, even if "someone else" gets to vote for them, and I marvel that the Republic still functions at all...

[JRandomFreeper]

Doesn't matter. I get all weekend with 5 kids aged 4-14 and I will ignore the liberal media crap being promoted here.

Those kids will get critical thinking, but only after they get some facts to hang that on.

/johnny

[Tenacious 1]

The government doesn't operate on verbal orders.

Correction: The government is not supposed to operate on verbal orders. Need I cite some apparent violations of that in the past few years?

[Tenacious 1]

I am going to assume you are kidding.

Affirmative.

[JRandomFreeper]

That you can cite some violations proves that it is not only illegal, it is rare.

/johnny

[publius911]

Perhaps we need to start firing incompetent teachers, based on their students’ achievement or lack thereof.

So teachers must fail or succed on the whim of the IQ of her students' lottery?

Pssst.
It's not all incompetent teachers. Not even most, actually.

Ever heard of the bell curve?

Parents, students and irrational dependence on "tolerance."

[Hugin]

50 years of leftist indoctrination in public schools.

[X-spurt]

Enjoy the Grandkids.

[Hugin]

Sounds like your son wasn’t even paying attention to the movie. It makes it clear that it happened after we had already landed on the moon. The astronauts lament that nobody cares after the first moon landing.

[D Rider]

Her question.... what side did Lee fight for?

That's easy... the Chineses /s

[longfellowsmuse]

Robert E. Lee the civil war general

[cynwoody]

That's easy... the Chineses /s

How about Vice Admiral Lee?

[Sans-Culotte]

When I was kid in elementary school in e 60s, they used timelines for history. I still think of history as a timeline, and I have tons of dates and events memorized. In my mind, I sort of move a cursor back and forth on the timeline to get a sense of the passage of time and the location of events on the timeline.