Thread by @RadCentrism

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Been saying this for a while now.

We are suffering through a concurrent #LowIQPandemic caused by abysmal educational standards—at all levels—particularly in the past 20 years.

The “decolonizing” of curricula in the 1960s and again in the 1990s has brought here:

https://twitter.com/jamie2181/status/1363531120432861188

2/8 Here’s a very quick explanation of how modern education has made us dumber, especially in language, since the 1960s (from Norman Doidge’s excellent ‘The Brain that Changes Itself’):

3/8 And then in the 1990s, our curricula were deemed “too white,” and this happened:

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1332142471875153920

4/8 Same basic point I made here:

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1328565071300026374

5/8 And here. (The lowest-performing humanities students chose majors in which they could get away with, and were encouraged to engage in, this type of intellectual murder):

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1360686785148317698

6/8 What were those majors?

Everything that caused/enabled Wokeness:

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1359010678401507328

7/8 Now add social media to the mix for the past 15 years, which created a sui generis space wherein all these idiots could self-radicalize and one-up each other across the globe.

And consider that this type of echo-chamber “engagement” drives tech company valuations/profits.

https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1358427101028880385

8/8 Finally, imagine that nearly *all* K-12 teachers for the past 25 years have been indoctrinated in the above insanity.

How’d you think the kids would turn out?

Like they did in the initial video:

9/ Addendum:

https://twitter.com/_danigilbert/status/1368603131379027969

10/ Addendum city-journal.org/the-miseducati…

11/ Addendum

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1368695124079693826

No...really? 🙄
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Let them be stupid!

(Comma splice in the title included.)
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