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people be anti intellectual and proud of it lmao. genuinely depressing and dystopian. US education is a massive failure
44 upvotes, 11 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Movies. "people be anti intellectual and proud of it lmao. genuinely depressing and dystopian. US education is a massive failure"
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Anonymous 1d

Media literacy is a fairly overused term tbf

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Anonymous 1d

I made that comment on the other post. I don’t think it’s bad to analyze movies, I just think the type of people who use the term “media literacy” while doing it tend to be annoying. Saying that’s “dystopian” is overdramatic and ridiculous

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Anonymous 1d

“Anti intellectual” 🤓

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Anonymous 10h

Too many people use “media literacy” wrong. I saw someone say that Americans have “no media literacy” because we have a different culture and didn’t get a cultural reference. People say that other people lack media literacy because they disagree with a headcanon. It’s gotten to the point of aggressively incorrect usage that odds are pretty high whoever’s using it is using it wrong, and that turns a lot of people off. It’s not anti-intellectualism to be tired of seeing another 14 year old-

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

i mean it is and dumb people use it too, but there is a media literacy crisis

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

That I agree with

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1d

lol proving my point

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 10h

-rambling about how everyone lacks media literacy because clearly fight club is about being gay and not a satire of masculinity. Or everyone “literally like has no media literacy anymore” because someone took their words at face value. At this point, “media literacy” just warrants an automatic eye roll from me.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 10h

judge the substance of what someone says. not the words they choose. pretty simple.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9h

the term “media literacy” is very basic. no one even used that word when analyzing a movie. words being co-opted by dumb people doesn’t mean the words themselves are dumb. and it is dystopian that people will stop reading something because they see a word that annoying people use. it is dystopian that we are practically living in fahrenheit 451. there is a media literacy crisis and denying it is just stupid. ignoring statements with the word does more harm than good

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 9h

Why should I waste my time reading dozens of really bad takes and misuses on the off chance that I see someone use it correctly instead? And why do you feel the need to be so passive aggressive and defensive over someone saying they don’t bother with something that’s become a widely misused buzzword?

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