Comment by intuitionist
4 days ago
It’s racist to break out statistics along what was literally the single most determinative factor for life outcomes in antebellum America?
4 days ago
It’s racist to break out statistics along what was literally the single most determinative factor for life outcomes in antebellum America?
No its racist to claim that literacy rates in the States were the highest in the world.
As long as you ignore all those pesky non-whites.
Unless the original commenters sneak-edited their comment, they included the word "whites" specifically to not ignore the non-whites and point out that universal literacy was not "universal" in the early US.