Friendly reminder that literacy isn’t an uncomplicated apolitical good, and the framing of it as an “important life skill” ignores the context that makes it necessary for survival.
What makes literacy “necessary for life” is that it’s needed for filling out forms and opening bank accounts and other such activities that are only ways to have access to resources people are robbed pf by default
When tankies talk about “raising literacy rates” and “pulling people out of poverty” when praising states, they ignore that states are responsible for the creation and continuation of problems they “solve”.
Not to mention that “literacy learning” and schools are often a vehicle for spreading cultural hegemony.
The only person engaging with this tweet in good faith was @derLutzelmann (will get back to your replies soon, you made good points!) and everyone else is just doing incoherent tankie/statist babbling
Lmao, all these replies and QTs. You know for such avid supporters of literacy, you’re not really good at reading comprehension 💀💀💀
Damn why’d they delete 
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