Just as the title asks I’ve noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they’re reading.

They’ll read it and despite all the information being there, if it’s even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it’s complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it’s making me lose my fucking mind.

  • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If I tried to make reasonable points about anything, or god forbid, shared my experiences - I was downvoted into oblivion

    Introducing quotes from authors that were related to the subject would really show how people were locked in the context of media immediacy, the environment. Links to outside citations would almost always generate replies from people who obviously did not study the citation and just wanted to respond back.

    It used to be something people said ‘out loud’ about people not reading links and just commenting… then it just became normalized.

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      1 year ago

      oh yeah the good ol’ [citation needed] meme even though they were already given a damn citation.

      Such an obvious sign of someone just responding to respond. Relies on repeating memes as a crutch and can’t have a real discussion about a a topic.