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Why Americans Are Retarded

 
Anonymous Coward
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[....] words in the English language we created.
 Quoting: Rhodes



English derives from Saxon Old German and Plattdeutsch (Low German in the North East).

Old German and Old English were practically identical.
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Most of the info I get on this topic is from Alan Watt. I do look into most of what he speaks of. From Merry Christmas and Chatham house and to the likes of Rhodes, Russell, Huxley, Orwell. These people, all elitist wishing to rule over us.

Can you blame a cow for not being able to walk, when you cut it's legs off?
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08/31/2010 02:33 PM
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[....] words in the English language we created.



English derives from Saxon Old German and Plattdeutsch (Low German in the North East).

Old German and Old English were practically identical.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1085155


I'm quite aware that english had it's many influences, thanks for pointing out the irrelevantly obvious......NOT!
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08/31/2010 02:38 PM
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No need to be defensive. OP is essentially correct. The U.S. education system is a disaster. Apparently by design.

"AFTER SOBER and judicious consideration, and weighing one thing against another in the interests of reasonable compromise, H. L. Mencken concluded that a startling and dramatic improvement in American education required only that we hang all the professors and burn down the schools. His uncharacteristically moderate proposal was not adopted. Those who actually knew more about education than Mencken did could see that his plan was nothing more than cosmetic and would in fact provide only an outward appearance of improvement. Those who knew less, on the other hand, had somewhat more elaborate plans of their own, and they just happened to be in charge of the schools.

Those who knew less, to be specific, were the members of the National Education Association's Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education, a.k.a. The Gang of Twenty-seven, now long forgotten but certainly not gone. They builded better than they knew, and their souls go marching on in every school in America today. The Commission was established in 1913, the year that also brought us the income tax. Many of its members were functionaries of school bureaucracies, from the United States Commissioner of Education himself down through supervisors and associate superintendents and principals and even a high school inspector, whatever that was, to no less a personage than a senior educational secretary of the YMCA. Professors and assistant professors of education represented the higher learning. One of them was chairman of the committee on mathematics, naturally, while the committees on lesser disciplines, notably classical and modern languages, were directed by high school teachers. The stern sciences were served by a professor of education, while the smiling sciences like social studies and the other household arts were overseen by federal bureaucrats. In the whole motley crew there were no scientists, no mathematicians, no historians, no traditional scholars of any sort."


For the rest of this brilliant little essay on the origins of the destruction of public education in the U.S. of A., see:
[link to www.sourcetext.com]
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08/31/2010 02:45 PM
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Theres a difference between dumb, ignorant and retarded.

If you dont know anything about a subject you are ignorant of that subject. If you only know lies about it, you are still ignorant of that subject.

Dumb would be when you fail to learn the truth being taught or taught lies about the subject and when presented with the truth, still believe the lies. But you can understand whats being discussed.

To be retarded means you have a learning difficulty that inhibits your ability to learn or understand the facts. In truth it means to slow or retard your learning experience. You can learn and recite the constitution, but you have no idea what you are saying. They are just words to you. no meaning behind them.

Americans may be ignorant about a lot of subjects, but this is hardly an American phenomenon. Every country has their own subset of retard people, ignorant people and dumb people. I am thinking you are one of Britans dumb subset. For you understand well enough and your intention to insult was duly noted, but you totally blew it with your lack of knowledge and true understanding of the words you chose to use.


I already knew and intentionally used the word retard in it's more slang meaning. Good job pointing out the obvious.
 Quoting: Rhodes


It's still offensive, though.
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[....] words in the English language we created.



English derives from Saxon Old German and Plattdeutsch (Low German in the North East).

Old German and Old English were practically identical.


I'm quite aware that english had it's many influences, thanks for pointing out the irrelevantly obvious......NOT!
 Quoting: Rhodes


N.B.
In both the US and England, it's is short for it is.
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08/31/2010 02:58 PM
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In the eastern US we spell it "Wetalded".
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N.B.
In both the US and England, it's is short for it is.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1069010

Off topic here, but I just took a quiz dealing with semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology, pragmatics, phonological processes, reduplication for children and dealing with linguistics, paralinguistics and metalinguistics!
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Rhodes  (OP)

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[....] words in the English language we created.



English derives from Saxon Old German and Plattdeutsch (Low German in the North East).

Old German and Old English were practically identical.


I'm quite aware that english had it's many influences, thanks for pointing out the irrelevantly obvious......NOT!


N.B.
In both the US and England, it's is short for it is.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1069010


Yes I regularly post grammar mistakes by accident being human and not a robot, I like how this has turned into try and make OP look like a retard because I'm butt-hurt that my country is full of poorly educated people and have ridiculous national pride. Don't bother attacking Britain also, I hate it over here as well.
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"Everyone year 50% of Americans get the answer wrong to does the earth orbit the sun and does it take a year."
 Quoting: Rhodes

And an even stranger percentage believe it is flat!
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08/31/2010 03:16 PM
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"Everyone year 50% of Americans get the answer wrong to does the earth orbit the sun and does it take a year."

And an even stranger percentage believe it is flat!
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That's OK..did you know that the sky is made of glass? ;-)
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08/31/2010 03:17 PM
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I'm quite aware that english had it's many influences, thanks for pointing out the irrelevantly obvious......NOT!
 Quoting: Rhodes


You also need to decide whether or not you wish to integrate or separate the two clauses in a grammatically correct manner.

For instance:

"I'm quite aware that English had its many influences. Thanks for pointing out the irrelevantly obvious......NOT!"

OR:

"I'm quite aware that English had its many influences, so thanks for pointing out the irrelevantly obvious......NOT!"

You'll also note that I've rendered 'English' in upper-case.
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The UK is becoming muslim and there are facts and stats about England that do not reflect kindly upon the intelligence of the denizens there.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1049144

what you think every muslim in europe looks like.

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what most of them actually look like
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Rhodes  (OP)

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I'm quite aware that english had it's many influences, thanks for pointing out the irrelevantly obvious......NOT!


You also need to decide whether or not you wish to integrate or separate the two clauses in a grammatically correct manner.

For instance:

"I'm quite aware that English had its many influences. Thanks for pointing out the irrelevantly obvious......NOT!"

OR:

"I'm quite aware that English had its many influences, so thanks for pointing out the irrelevantly obvious......NOT!"

You'll also note that I've rendered 'English' in upper-case.
 Quoting: Teaching time 1005460


Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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Sounds like some elitist propaganda to me.
 Quoting: Prisoner of Technology


Do not believe everything the news tells you, even if it tells you Americans are dumb. There are lies, damned lies, statistics.



"Everyone year 50% of Americans get the answer wrong to does the earth orbit the sun and does it take a year."

This sentence doesn't even make sense.
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"Over 90% of middle-school science teachers haven't taken a science course beyond high-school."

"60% of US adults stated their belief that God created humans in their present form less than 10,000 years ago."(April 2007)

"53% of American adults are unaware that the last Dinosaur died before the first human arose. "

What are the numbers/demographics of these stats? For all we know it can be 90/100 middle school teachers near more rural areas of America, it doesn't make the statistic any less true except it does not ACCURATELY project the level of education of middle school teachers across the nation.

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08/31/2010 04:36 PM
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Anyone living in America knows that this is not even close to being true. Taking this shit off a British fag whose country can't even accomplish good dental care.
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08/31/2010 04:51 PM
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dental care.
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that took its time in coming

i was worried for a second lol
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08/31/2010 04:53 PM
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I suppose that is because so many of them came from the UK and other countries over there. Had they stayed home we would still have our country. Don't worry us native Americans are soon to send them back.
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Anyone living in America knows that this is not even close to being true. Taking this shit off a British fag whose country can't even accomplish good dental care.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 980721



Yes, it's utterly ridiculous and we have the daily need by some to rag on the USA.

Note half the time they pretend to be Americans who just happend to be posting from a British or Canadian IP.

I used to like the British and thought the canadians tolerable but now I can't stand them from their daily barrage of hate for Americans.
One of the most important aspects of conspiracy theories is being able to discern when there isn't one.

Oh yeah, like you'd understand anyway.

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Rhodes  (OP)

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08/31/2010 06:40 PM
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Anyone living in America knows that this is not even close to being true. Taking this shit off a British fag whose country can't even accomplish good dental care.



Yes, it's utterly ridiculous and we have the daily need by some to rag on the USA.

Note half the time they pretend to be Americans who just happend to be posting from a British or Canadian IP.

I used to like the British and thought the canadians tolerable but now I can't stand them from their daily barrage of hate for Americans.
 Quoting: Bluebird


It's not hate it's a serious problem you need to come to terms with, just look at the statistics, compare what happens in your education system to other well developed countries.

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Reminder to self:

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience...
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"Everyone year 50% of Americans get the answer wrong to does the earth orbit the sun and does it take a year."

"Over 90% of middle-school science teachers haven't taken a science course beyond high-school."

"60% of US adults stated their belief that God created humans in their present form less than 10,000 years ago."(April 2007)

"53% of American adults are unaware that the last Dinosaur died before the first human arose. "

These statistics are extremely scary and disgusting to me. I can safely say that people saying that most Americans are retarded is not an ignorant generalisation.

People should watch more of Lawrence Krauss.
 Quoting: Rhodes


GOYIM KNOW WHAT A GOYIM SHOULD KNOW>
NOTHINGS MORE NOTHINGS LESS THAT AMERICANS
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Before you go knocking the Americans; look around you in Britain; there are a few over here that are not the brightest light in the street!
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The UK is becoming muslim and there are facts and stats about England that do not reflect kindly upon the intelligence of the denizens there.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1049144



It is far from the state you described. If you go to UK's countryside and it doesnt really matter whether it is Wales, Scotland or England, you can search for non-Whites with a lens and you wount find any. You can drive for miles and miles and all you will meet/see is white people.

It is true that some parts of the cities or better said neighbourhoods are full of Arabs or they are a majority but those are isolated parts of cities AND(from my experience) this is only witnessed in the Midlands. Meaning cities like Birmingham and down to London. This area is the most filled with non whites but stil white people are very much the majority here. What I was surprised about is the lack of black people. I thought there is much, much more of blacks in England but comparing to the Arabs they are allmost nonexistent.
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Before you go knocking the Americans; look around you in Britain; there are a few over here that are not the brightest light in the street!
 Quoting: Heavyheadfred 1085403


I've already said that multiple times in this thread. Notice how the thread title or my post doesn't say "Americans are retarded, but hey British people are SUPER SMART!"
I'm open to people attacking my scientific literacy though, but I feel I'm fairly well educated doing a Chemistry degree and all. banana2
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"Everyone year 50% of Americans get the answer wrong to does the earth orbit the sun and does it take a year."

"Over 90% of middle-school science teachers haven't taken a science course beyond high-school."

"60% of US adults stated their belief that God created humans in their present form less than 10,000 years ago."(April 2007)

"53% of American adults are unaware that the last Dinosaur died before the first human arose. "

These statistics are extremely scary and disgusting to me. I can safely say that people saying that most Americans are retarded is not an ignorant generalisation.

People should watch more of Lawrence Krauss.
 Quoting: Rhodes

I hope a large part of that is from preschoolers and those ancient ones with advance medical problems, the one guess rule probably help when dealing with the inebriated ones polled.

Knowing more than you are allowed to teach just adds expenses to their own education bill.

That would fall on the shoulders of their spiritual leaders rather than it being a mental defect of the sheep. Perhaps they know in they dug down and found they were being lied to they might willingly break some commandments they had sort of made promises not to. They can certainly hold back the money and not attend the sermons. Watch how fast that would straighten out the top layers.

Perhaps more TV that shows interesting things that actually have some value. The number of ones that can't afford such things would make any progress as they are probably more interested in not following the same path all the extinct species have taken.

What middle schoolers knew in the '40's is more than College does these days. I would be really messed up without a spell-checker

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We take after our British ancestors. Genetics.
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Was that an attempt to impress me; the thread speaks for itself; looking for attention are we?





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