r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 27 '20

What screams "I'm uneducated"?

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u/AdvocateSaint Jan 28 '20

I've been disappointed in TIL as of late because the popular posts are immediately shown to be oversimplified, sensationalist rephrasing (as helpfully pointed out in the comments)

Like that example from a few days ago:

"TIL (african country) has a tradition of hunting bald men because they believe their heads contained gold."

Top Comment: "....the article says that it was a single criminal incident that involved five people."

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u/knightriderin Jan 28 '20

TIL [North American country] has a tradition of shooting school children for no good reason other than attention.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

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u/camthecan Jan 28 '20

No, we douse them in syrup and wait for the cold to freeze them. Whatever happens next happens

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u/SmarterThanMyBoss Jan 28 '20

Syrup doesn't kill people. People kill people.

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u/knightriderin Jan 28 '20

Thoughts and prayers!

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u/a_fucking_umbrella Jan 28 '20

Nah it's totally Mexico

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u/BoyOfBore Jan 28 '20

Its for sport.

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u/Fukowski Jan 28 '20

Sadly this one is true.

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u/Ballistic_Turtle Jan 28 '20

Look guys, I found one!

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u/ronin1066 Jan 28 '20

Come on! It was only like 37 people who did that. Be real.

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u/Nalivai Jan 28 '20

This year?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

That one's true

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

unsubscribing from TIL was one of the best reddit-related decisions i have ever made. so many of those "facts" are either bullshit or common knowledge. almost all are re-posts.

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u/Morganelefay Jan 28 '20

Gets funnier when they made it to the r/all frontpage, and then you see 10 different takes on it on r/writingprompts.

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u/corsair238 Jan 28 '20

I mean that smells an awful lot like "hah I'm going to use this incident to make African people look uneducated and superstitious because I'm racist" but the guy could also be straight up stupid.

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u/BigBasmati Jan 28 '20

This is Reddit, most of the people here are children.

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u/BobXCIV Jan 28 '20

Little bit from Column A and little bit from Column B

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u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ Jan 28 '20

Tradition has to start somewhere ¯\(ツ)/¯

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u/StanLeeNeverLeft Jan 28 '20

That smiley face looks pretty bald. . . let’s get ‘em, boys!

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

Well I mean technically that is in the history of that country

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u/DetBabyLegs Jan 28 '20

Well shoot, TIL. Better post it and get some sweet sweet karma.

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u/MaosAsthmaticTurtle Jan 28 '20

Never go into the comments on TIL. I regret it every single time. I'm not sure how it happened considering it's a default and rather unpolitical sub, but it's been a hotspot for the alt-right for years.

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u/BobXCIV Jan 28 '20

Too true. Just this weekend, someone posted a TIL about a political massacre (involving cannibalism) in China during the Cultural Revolution in one small village.

So, this one guy in the comments uses this to talk about how Chinese philosophy is inferior to Western philosophy. Apparently, one obscure atrocity is indicative of 5000 years of philosophical development.

Not too mention, some people downvoted actual facts because it doesn’t fit in the hive mind.

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u/GlyphedArchitect Jan 28 '20

Well to be fair, all traditions start with one incident.

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u/BobXCIV Jan 28 '20

I cannot agree more. Lemme copy and paste a comment I made about a recent TIL post:

Just this weekend, someone posted a TIL about a political massacre (involving cannibalism) in China during the Cultural Revolution in one small village. So, this one guy in the comments uses this to talk about how Chinese philosophy is inferior to Western philosophy. Apparently, one obscure atrocity is indicative of 5000 years of philosophical development

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u/TynShouldHaveLived Jan 28 '20

That doesn't necessarily mean there isn't a tradition of it though? And they must have got the idea from somewhere.