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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 18 hours ago

Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools?

www.newsweek.com

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Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools?

www.newsweek.com

Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 18 hours ago
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Arabic numerals are simply the digits 0 through 9—the standard number symbols used in every classroom in the United States.
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    I don’t know if it’s just me but it feels like people are way dumber now than they were 10 years ago

    • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      It really does and I keep wondering if people were always this dumb and I just never noticed, or if they really have become dumber. I do think Covid made a lot of people lose their minds though and we’ve just never recovered

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        Social media and engagement-based algorithms have also turbocharged the spread of misnformation.

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        I’ve noticed my mom’s cognitive function has gotten worse since she got covid. She can’t follow conversations as easily, she forgets things (a few days ago she left the stove on), and she’s paranoid the neighbors have bugged our house. She’s never been a very clever person, but yeah it’s worse. Granted, my grandmother had early onset dementia and my grandfather died of something brain related (cancer? Aneurysm? I don’t remember) but I’m hoping those aren’t it.

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        The difference is that social media and the internet has connected us to all the dummies

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      covid-cool

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Also add in an aging population of boomers that are flirting with dementia and other age related problems impacting the brain. They consume this fake news crap and share it in droves.

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      idk this joke is at least obama years old

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    Once again proving that the average american is a 15th century serf with a smart phone.

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      you-are-a-serf

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    Newsweek has contacted representatives of Mamdani for comment via email outside of regular working hours.

    …really?? Most of the world has been using ‘Arabic numerals’ for centuries. That’s it, nothing more is needed. Giving any actual effort to ‘rebutting’ this beyond that is to tacitly carry water for this islamophobic horseshit by increasing the profile of it, but then again Western press loves to be overtly xenophobic as well so I can’t say I’m surprised.

    Americans continue to be the most idiotic and fearful population that exists outside of fiction.

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    Next thing you know these SOCIALISTS will try spreading propaganda for Dihydrogen Monoxide frothingfash

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    They are forcing children as young as four to learn the teachings of the mad linguist Abdul Al-Phabet

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    they can pry my roman numerals out of my cold dead hands in the year MMLII (the year the oracle said I will die)

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    I hope New York is ready for 4 years of this silliness

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    Don’t tell me people fell for this again lmao

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    Can’t make this shit up

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    Everyone who used Arabic numerals clearly needs mandatory reeducation :gulag: :bugs-stalin:

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    Next you’re gonna tell me there’s gonna halal carts all over nyc

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