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I don't think I said anything about making people illiterate.

Undermining literacy means so they are not as literate as they could be to improve their lives.

For example, there are more than a few studies on literacy and education levels of the political spectrum for better and worse.

India is a different world. The crime against humanity that is the caste system all but forbade 1-3% of the population to be permitted to learn how to read. 95-98% of Indians were not permitted to learn how to read, and had to rely on the interpretations of the less populous castes.

Ironically it is a minority that largely broke this logjam and helped push literacy for the many forward.

I'll gladly take the downvotes for speaking the truth about caste being a divider between people and society.



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