posters upthread are talking about comprehension and value systems, not literacy.

"functionally illiterate" is the brush that one paints with when describing people of opposing political viewpoint or lower socioeconomic status, for example.

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jazzyjackson 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I must be illiterate because this doesn’t make any sense to me

Being kinda dumb and graduating school without reading a book is not a socioeconomic status

	▲	chadgpt3 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The point: you call them "functionally illiterate" when you don't like them. Otherwise, you call them something else.