In my defense, Ft worth was a big town
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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I feel like Lemmy and Reddit are filled to the brim with these "lazy intellectuals", I'm starting to wonder if any other sort of people even exist online
Idk if I'd even call it "intellectual" so much as "smug". You find this all over. People self-sort into cliches. And then they get high on their own supply, insisting everyone outside their group is inferior.
You'll find it over in the Joe Rogan-verse, among the TradCaths, in every ethnic enclave from Cuban expats to the Taiwanese Diaspora. As common among Marxists as Fascists. As common among Americans as Iranians. As common in the board rooms as the barber shops.
Broadly speaking - and particularly as people get older - we develop this entrenched worldview that results from accumulations of vast amounts of personal and peripheral information.
I call it pseudo-intellectualism. These people 100% think that they know exactly what they are talking about.
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Isn't this basically the premise of Idiocracy?
No the premise of that is that a totally average servicemember in every way is forgotten about in an experiment and is unconscious for 500 years, only to awaken with his prostitute experiment mate, as the two smartest people on earth. A documentary.
The difference between most GT and Standard classes lies in your ability and willingness to put in extra work.
Half the kids in the standard classes just want to skate along as easily as possible. Why stress and work hard when you get the same exact outcome in the end? It's not like they want to go on to college, so why work hard now?
It's not that different in the workforce in many places.
That's what every Balzac novel is about
Small town woes, lol.
That’s a me, retardando
Jesus, there's some real intellectual elitism being displayed in this thread. Like I understand that the American education system is shitty and a large portion of the population is just functionally literate, and I understand the frustration of having to deal with those types of people and having to explain things to them. But, that's one thing, it's another completely different thing to call them idiots or see them as lesser. They're most likely not idiots, it probably just means they has less help and/or less experiences than you did as a kid to better understand some of the things you did. You should never look down upon someone for being less intelligent or less educated than you. Those things are not the entirety of what make up a person's worth. There's things like creativity, emotional intelligence, etc. Everyone deserves the same base level of respect, and if you think you're the smartest person in a room bar none, you're actually the idiot.
Gifted And Talented was just segregation with extra steps.
You could buy your way in. You could be placed in the group by referral, without any testing. We had a developmentally disabled kid in our GT class, because his parents were rich and GT offered your kid far more resources than the standard school program.
The lowest common denominator of GT programs wasn't IQ or GPA or number of spelling bee wins, but address and family income.
This is a highly limited context of your experience and situated when you went to school and where you went. I can only talk about the TAG program in my district and they use testing and are very strict about it.
Our child was referred by a teacher and we were encouraged to pursue it. There's more to say about the program and it's role in society, but these type of comments preclude a discussion on child needs and wealth.
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¿Por que no los dos?
Were?
I think maybe substitute the word planet for towns.