If you take a good long look at the kind of things that go viral on social media, and the big social media “influencers,” you’re going to want to throw up. From Donald Jeffries at donaldjeffries.substack.com:
Institutionalized Dumber and Dumber
Back in the antiquated days of 2007, a television show burst upon the scene with the provocative title, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? By and large, the adults who competed proved that they weren’t. Which really says something, considering that today’s 5th graders aren’t exactly well educated.
The popular program was hosted by comedian Jeff Foxworthy, who achieved notoriety through his “You might be a redneck if…” jokes. Foxworthy, like many a comedian smarter or not smarter than a 5th grader, recognized that there was gold in gently ridiculing the intelligence, habits, and appearance of “rednecks.” After all, to be a redneck, you have to be White. And devoid of fantastic riches. So they’re fair game. And with the culture effectively banning comedy routines directed at any other group, where else are you going to go? Just imagine what would have been the reaction if Foxworthy tried, “You might be a ghetto rat….” or “You might be an illegal….”
But the point of the show was to demonstrate, as if it needed more demonstrating, that American adults are woefully ignorant. This goes back to Steve Allen’s “Man on the street” segments over sixty years ago. Jay Leno used it, and alternative media icon Mark Dice has made it into an art form. He goes out on the ocean front in southern California, and gets mostly Whites, from mostly wealthy families, to reveal just how unknowledgeable they are. In one case, he asked a bunch of them what they thought of President Kennedy recently dying in a car accident. Almost all of them accepted this without batting an eye. Like others before him, he gets Americans to sign petitions to take away the First Amendment and the like.
Go influence yourself.