>the United States is the only country known to have had anti-literacy laws.[5]
>>25330469>have hadjim crow?
>>25330485Jim Crow was post-Reconstruction, anti-literacy laws were antebellum
>>25330469Based
>>25330469Polpot literally killed people wearing glasses and Japan had a whole alphabet for women so they could go shopping. Anti-literacy laws were rampant in different ways during the middle ages and Christians burned Alexandria. What are you smoking?
>>25330469Does the Khmer Rouge count?
>>25330469Mao said to read too many books is harmful
>>25330544Seems like you've got too broad an idea of what counts as "anti-literacy laws." Did Pol Pot or these Christians from the Middle Ages enact legislation that banned anyone from learning how to read?
>>25330469Afghanistan currently has laws against women learning to read.
>>25330578Mao was a writer himself. When writers say this what they mean is "you should only be reading my stuff"
>>25330599Restricting education isn't the same as banning literacy.
>>25330544>lampshades, masturbation machines!
>>25330578Raising the literacy rate was actually a major project for him and the CCP which they largely succeeded at
>>25330469>when the wiki article is written by an america-hating retard
>>25330544This, op is a fucking retard ON TOP of sucking cocks
>>25330611So did you make a typo here? >>25330596
>>25330544>America is so free that they've got only slightly less draconian anti intellectualism than the worst of the worst!! MURICA! *waves a gadsden flag proudly emblazened with the words DON'T READ TO ME*
>>25330469And it was a much better country when they existed
>>25331189This but unironically
>>25331189>emblazened
>>25331189I'm sorry that I read what you wrote on the /lit/ board and it hurt your feelings that that isn't what you wanted to say, but if you get good at writing someday, maybe you'll be able to express yourself in something other than frog hieroglyphics
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>>25330469>all the murrifats ITT who refuse to accept this fact yet fail to accurently identify another country with the same lawslol
>>25331349it's funny that you wake up and go to bed seething about America every day, while I probably couldn't even find your country on a map
>>25331380>I probably couldn't even find your country on a mapI too would bet that you couldn't. I'm American too b-t-w
Hitler literally burned books.
>>25331391>YOU FUCKING MURRIFATS>I'm totally American too btw ;)no, you're just another seething, irrelevant, foreign faggot
>>25331391que pena wey...
>>25331606Consider the difference between "you may not read these specific books" and "you may not read any books at all".
>>25331606What was are in those
>>25331623I'm American and reading books rn, looking forward to my 3hots and a cot
>>25331607You'd hate America too if you followed the news and history, but like most in this country you prefer your ignorance.
>>25331663Following the news and reading history leads one to hate all countries and peoples, albeit.
>>25330544Low literacy or anti-literacy sentiment is not equivalent to having anti-literacy laws, i.e legal codifications aimed to actively make it illegal to be literate by law. I think its very much possible that some prior anti-literacy laws existed, but the examples you gave are incorrect. Pol-pot's example is not a law, it was a form of revolutionary terror, and selective or elite literacy (as in the Japanese or medieval example) is not the same as actively preventing people from becoming literate through enforcement of a law. For example, although women were severely limited in a structural way from becoming literate, it was not actually illegal: literate women existed among the elites in both societies, think Murasaki Shikibu in Japan or Hildegaard von Bingen in medieval europe.
>>25330618Yah, they just wanted people to read just enough, but not too much.
>>25333717Haha well boomered
