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[–] 29 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

lots of people i meet brag they don't read either dude.

usually after they see that I'm reading a book or if I tell them I like to read. they seem to find this very offensive and upsetting.

i notice this especially with like, tech and medical workers? I also met quite a few english teachers who flexed how they don't read and think reading is dumb.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    english teachers who [...] don't read

    Not having time to read I could understand. Teaching comes with a lot of overtime. But actively bragging that they don't?!

    My head hurts just thinking about that.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago*

    plenty of people working in teaching/education are rabidly anti-intellectual. and lots of people in life are rabidly-hypocritical.

    the irony here too was the few people i met like this, also lectured me on my 'problematic' choices of reading material not being woke enough. like i had this date with an English teacher who went off on me for 30m about how racist/sexist I was for not being intimately familiar with Toni Morrison, and when I asked her when the last time she read it, it was 15+ years ago in college... the irony was just... so insane. she was going at me for not having read a book she read in college for coursework...

    it's just all weird flexes all the way down sometimes with some people.

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