Confessions on Sidechat | If English is your first language, and you don’t use the correct form of their/there/they’re, you’re an idiot. You shouldn’t have the right to vote.

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Confessions 1w

If English is your first language, and you don’t use the correct form of their/there/they’re, you’re an idiot. You shouldn’t have the right to vote.

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Anonymous 1w

so thats called a literacy test.. which we have gotten rid of. Our country cannot educate its citizens properly in all places, which has been proven in many studies. Maybe pick up a book every once in a while and learn something instead of being a grammar nazi.

Anonymous 1w

english isn’t even my first language and i can’t imagine not knowing the difference between there/they’re/their

Anonymous 1w

I feel like this is such a nonissue. Literally most people know the difference. And even if the mistake is made, most people can still understand what’s being said. It’s just so easy to make the mistake especially when you’re writing/typing fast, and it’s just as easy to go back and correct it. It’s rare to see someone go “But what’s wrong with that?” When you tell them they wrote “their” instead of “there.”

Anonymous 1w

Sometimes I type to fast and misspell 😭😭

Anonymous 1w

They should definitely have the right to vote. Not every state or country has a good education system. A lack of proper grammar doesn’t mean someone shouldn’t have the ability to vote for their own rights. Bs like that is what slave owners tried to keep black ppl from voting and what the rich have been doing for thousands of years to keep down the poor.

Anonymous 1w

I think your spending to much time on gramar. Your’ being annoying. Whatever there saying just ignore it smh.

Anonymous

#1 1w

Right but everyone had access to education now. And everyone has access to a machine in your hand that will auto correct it for you

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Anonymous

OP 1w

So that’s a shallow response to something that has been studied in depth. I’m not going to teach you about socioeconomic and all of the consequences. You made a silly post and I called you out on how it’s actually total bs if you think about it on a deeper level. Not everything is a “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” situation. You’re blessed to not get it and ignorant for not researching more.

Anonymous

#1 1w

Hey, I don’t wanna take away your vote. You understand the difference between the words.

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Anonymous

#2 1w

No vote for you

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Anonymous

#4 1w

I know literacy tests are illegal. I’m just tired of stupid rednecks. I work with them all day and I just want a legal way to make them shut up or stop procreating

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Anonymous

OP 1w

oh.. so thats like illegal on many levels! just because you think someone is stupid doesn’t mean they’re actually stupid.. hope this helps!

Anonymous

#4 1w

Yes it does.

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Anonymous

OP 1w

whatever you would like to tell yourself to sleep better at night!

Anonymous

OP 1w

So the groups of other people who butcher English are all ok, you are just raciest towards those you deem as rednecks? How educated, original and mainstream you are.

Anonymous

OP 1w

How about you instead of punishing people for not being educated enough, you put more of your time and effort into making sure those communities are getting a better education (so, ensuring those schools get funding). Instead of just telling them to shut up

Anonymous

#8 1w

Also literacy test also discriminate against other people than rednecks because any person in a non-well-funded school or without the opportunities to become educated will get banned from voting. And when you look at the systems of oppression that used to be in place that still affect us today,,, well. The solution is to improve education for them, not shut them up

Anonymous

#6 1w

That’s not racism. Redneck is not a race or ethnicity. And yes I am educated

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Anonymous

#8 1w

I’m in favor of that. I’m a left wing social democrat. I want better education. I wish our education system wasn’t based on property taxes

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Anonymous

OP 1w

You’re a left wing social democrat who’s in favor of eugenics? You really said that rednecks should stop procreating. Don’t try to pretend that’s progressive.

Anonymous

#9 1w

Fr like the eugenics part isn’t slipping by anyone 😭

Anonymous

OP 1w

You and those like you are a big part of what’s wrong with the left wing social democrats…..

Anonymous

#7 1w

Fr like I understand the difference it’s just sometimes my mind defaults to using the spelling of“their,” so written out I seem illiterate if I didn’t correct it (which I always do). And like you said, even written out most people would be able to immediately determine which word it’s supposed to be. It rlly isn’t that big of an issue.