You know I thought I was dealing with adults who were aware that the entire world knew this(minus the Elon-stans who refuse to acknowledge it), but apparently I was wrong and that every post here has to include that in it otherwise all the little feelings get hurt.
Purity test subs are just fucking weird.
Yes Elon is one of the pervs and he's the perv who makes it possible for other pervs to do heinous shit, but you know who else makes it possible for pervs to do heinous shit? The entire fucking internet because it, historically, runs on porn. Oh, and Photoshop.
So lesson learned for me, I guess, because I have a habit of just posting willy-nilly on places like Lemmy. Note to self: check that the place isn't weird as fuck first.
Agreed. The person who was talking about it referenced media literacy and being able to discern valid sources from, effectively, propaganda.
Critical thinking skills were more to the point of the "functional illiteracy" label.
And god damn that example hits home because the worst of social media posts are exactly that. The Reddit "um akshually" guy who wonders why a simple statement post doesn't include every possible extrapolation because it has to be a one-upmanship game instead of a clarifying question.
Critical thinking skills aren't completely dead in America, but they are on life support and I'm not sure it'll survive.