Comment by bchris4
7 months ago
The areas with higher rates of left handedness on the map seem to correlate to the more progressive areas where you’d expect parents and teachers to not discourage it. Was kind of surprised they didn’t mention that, given they started with that anecdote.
Or in other words, educators in red states are more effective in suppressing sinister tendencies in children.
To the people downvoting labster's comment: He's making a joke about left-handedness being referred to as "sinister" due to the Latin origins (apparently this may originate from how Romans wore their togas). He's not saying that teachers are making children any less evil.
Wait a minute, that doesn't sound right.
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Yeah, the side of the political spectrum associated with the color red in the US (which is actually used for the other side in pretty much all of the rest of the world AFAIK) is usually referred to as "right-wing", so they of course think that nothing having to do with left can be good...
My brother is left-handed, but he was forced to write right-handed at school. He was smacked hard on his hand with a ruler if he was caught using his left hand.