alt Hacker NewsSomeone always finds a way to shit on the US. Every single time.
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The US is a context that is generally relevant to HN, and for which we have lots of data.
Literacy is a worldwide problem.
I appreciate the replies that just drive home how correct the observation is. Some of you hate the US, I get it. Some of you are probably bots or shills doing it for compensation. Some are just parrots. Some are actually in the US, of course, there's no loathing like self-loathing.
In this case it's the US that's shitting on the US. These numbers don't compare the US with other countries, they compare the US in 2023 with the US in 2017. And the numbers are from the US government National Center for Education Statistics.
Yeah well unfortunately the US is pretty shitty in this day and age
When quoting a factual statistic is "shitting on the US", you're losing the ability to address issues.