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[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\"." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats)." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you.", ">\n\nNo surprise there." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you.", ">\n\nNo surprise there.", ">\n\nPray for the people of Florida. They live in Florida, after all." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you.", ">\n\nNo surprise there.", ">\n\nPray for the people of Florida. They live in Florida, after all.", ">\n\nReplaced by Chekhov's \"The seagull\" -.-" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you.", ">\n\nNo surprise there.", ">\n\nPray for the people of Florida. They live in Florida, after all.", ">\n\nReplaced by Chekhov's \"The seagull\" -.-", ">\n\nprobably went by title alone to make decision" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you.", ">\n\nNo surprise there.", ">\n\nPray for the people of Florida. They live in Florida, after all.", ">\n\nReplaced by Chekhov's \"The seagull\" -.-", ">\n\nprobably went by title alone to make decision", ">\n\nThis just in: children depicting sex acts is wrong" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you.", ">\n\nNo surprise there.", ">\n\nPray for the people of Florida. They live in Florida, after all.", ">\n\nReplaced by Chekhov's \"The seagull\" -.-", ">\n\nprobably went by title alone to make decision", ">\n\nThis just in: children depicting sex acts is wrong", ">\n\nDisingenuous argument. No one is depicting sex acts in this. It was cancelled for \"Containing adult sexual dialog that is inappropriate for student cast members\"\nDid you read the article?" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you.", ">\n\nNo surprise there.", ">\n\nPray for the people of Florida. They live in Florida, after all.", ">\n\nReplaced by Chekhov's \"The seagull\" -.-", ">\n\nprobably went by title alone to make decision", ">\n\nThis just in: children depicting sex acts is wrong", ">\n\nDisingenuous argument. No one is depicting sex acts in this. It was cancelled for \"Containing adult sexual dialog that is inappropriate for student cast members\"\nDid you read the article?", ">\n\nBreaking News: Redditor doesn't read article" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you.", ">\n\nNo surprise there.", ">\n\nPray for the people of Florida. They live in Florida, after all.", ">\n\nReplaced by Chekhov's \"The seagull\" -.-", ">\n\nprobably went by title alone to make decision", ">\n\nThis just in: children depicting sex acts is wrong", ">\n\nDisingenuous argument. No one is depicting sex acts in this. It was cancelled for \"Containing adult sexual dialog that is inappropriate for student cast members\"\nDid you read the article?", ">\n\nBreaking News: Redditor doesn't read article", ">\n\nI hardly read this comment" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you.", ">\n\nNo surprise there.", ">\n\nPray for the people of Florida. They live in Florida, after all.", ">\n\nReplaced by Chekhov's \"The seagull\" -.-", ">\n\nprobably went by title alone to make decision", ">\n\nThis just in: children depicting sex acts is wrong", ">\n\nDisingenuous argument. No one is depicting sex acts in this. It was cancelled for \"Containing adult sexual dialog that is inappropriate for student cast members\"\nDid you read the article?", ">\n\nBreaking News: Redditor doesn't read article", ">\n\nI hardly read this comment", ">\n\nI can't read" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you.", ">\n\nNo surprise there.", ">\n\nPray for the people of Florida. They live in Florida, after all.", ">\n\nReplaced by Chekhov's \"The seagull\" -.-", ">\n\nprobably went by title alone to make decision", ">\n\nThis just in: children depicting sex acts is wrong", ">\n\nDisingenuous argument. No one is depicting sex acts in this. It was cancelled for \"Containing adult sexual dialog that is inappropriate for student cast members\"\nDid you read the article?", ">\n\nBreaking News: Redditor doesn't read article", ">\n\nI hardly read this comment", ">\n\nI can't read", ">\n\nTeenagers doing a play about a play being censored because it has a daughter falling in love with a prostitute isnt going to go over well in a publicly funded school. They had to have known that. The play they are replacing it with is a Checkov play. Its hard to find parents to agree to 15 year old's having very adult sexual dialog in a school play. It features two actress's making out on stage. The playwright herself is protesting the decision, but we are talking about a public school. its a school for the arts, but still a public school, and they are all under 18. They had to know this was going to generate controversy. I dont think the high school missed the point, I think they deliberately generated the controversy ,knowing full well the school would shut it down." ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you.", ">\n\nNo surprise there.", ">\n\nPray for the people of Florida. They live in Florida, after all.", ">\n\nReplaced by Chekhov's \"The seagull\" -.-", ">\n\nprobably went by title alone to make decision", ">\n\nThis just in: children depicting sex acts is wrong", ">\n\nDisingenuous argument. No one is depicting sex acts in this. It was cancelled for \"Containing adult sexual dialog that is inappropriate for student cast members\"\nDid you read the article?", ">\n\nBreaking News: Redditor doesn't read article", ">\n\nI hardly read this comment", ">\n\nI can't read", ">\n\nTeenagers doing a play about a play being censored because it has a daughter falling in love with a prostitute isnt going to go over well in a publicly funded school. They had to have known that. The play they are replacing it with is a Checkov play. Its hard to find parents to agree to 15 year old's having very adult sexual dialog in a school play. It features two actress's making out on stage. The playwright herself is protesting the decision, but we are talking about a public school. its a school for the arts, but still a public school, and they are all under 18. They had to know this was going to generate controversy. I dont think the high school missed the point, I think they deliberately generated the controversy ,knowing full well the school would shut it down.", ">\n\nConsider the performing arts dead if high schoolers can’t perform plays that have adult topics in them" ]

[ "Congratulations on teaching the students that school boards are not worthy of respect", ">\n\nEh, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a high school shouldn't be performing plays that involve prostitution. \nHigh school plays are meant to be for general audiences, so family members (including younger siblings) can attend.", ">\n\nI don't know man. I mean if high school kids want to find out about prostitution, they just can. You can't hide that kind of stuff anymore.\nAnd you know what? I don't know that that's a bad thing. I think maybe one of the things the internet is going to show us is that all of this stuff we've been keeping from people doesn't have the effects we think it's going to have. I think we're going to find out that lying to people in general, for lots of different reasons, isn't as good an idea as we think it is. Maybe it'll enable us to solve a lot of the problems we've been trying to solve forever and been unable to do anything about.\nBut hey, who knows? Maybe it'll have a terrible effect instead.", ">\n\nMediocre bot", ">\n\nHey, beep boop, pal", ">\n\nIrony is dead.", ">\n\nNo, we are suffering from irony poisoning. When's the last time someone did anything that wasn't drenched in irony?", ">\n\nHow FL woke.", ">\n\nThat sounds very Florida. Hopefully the students can find a way to protest and/or put the play on elsewhere.", ">\n\nAs long as they don't say gay while they're doing it. We don't want them getting in trouble with their new undereducated soldier / teachers.", ">\n\nI suspect it is the politicians at the board level, republican affiliated fundamentalists. Most teachers are open to equal rights and civil liberties", ">\n\nI was commenting about how the politicians have ruined our school systems here in Florida. You can now teach in schools here if you are a former servicemember who DOESN'T have a degree. (Yes, the degree disqualifies them from the program). \nTeachers are usually an educated lot who does quite a bit for most communities they're in. Teaching used to be for the students, in Florida they've turned the job into a political shitstorm. I wouldn't want to be a student or teacher in a school in this state. \nHAVE A NICE DAY!", ">\n\n\"Are you a total moron? If so, become a Florida teacher! We don't need any of those elites telling us what's what. We don't like minorities - like Black people and homosexuals - and we certainly don't like smart people, so come on down to Florida and teach our kids how to be hateful morons just like you! (Guns not included, but encouraged)\" - DeSantis's team pretty much", ">\n\nmeh\nI know the show. It's a play within a play (the former of which was controversial in its time) involving a brothel owner's daughter who falls in love with one of his prostitutes.\nThe play within the play was one of the first (if not the first if memory serves?) to feature two women kissing on stage.\nThere's certainly more \"adult\" language and topics within the show (e.g. brothel, prostitution), but not really that edgy.", ">\n\nI love plays within plays! This sounds super cool. I'm not surprised it got cancelled though. I'm surprised the school was planning to put it on in the first place. My school certainly wouldn't have", ">\n\nIt’s not cancel culture if it’s conservatives doing it! /s", ">\n\nIt's always amusing to hear Republicans explain why Trump yelling \"Get that son of a bitch off the field!\" about Colin Kaepernick because Kaep's free speech offended them totally isn't cancel culture.", ">\n\nConservativism is fundamentally based on 2 beliefs:\n1) If I experience any consequences whatsoever for saying hateful or bigoted things, I am a victim of cancel culture.\n2) Any type of free expression that offends my beliefs must be cancelled immediately.", ">\n\nThe conservative view of the law is that it has people it protects (fellow conservatives/natives/straight people/etc.) and people it binds or restricts (liberals, people who \"deviate\" from the norm, immigrants, etc.). It's why they can commit crimes and not consider themselves \"criminals\" - for them a \"criminal\" is a moral judgment of a type of person, not a neutral term for a person who breaks a law.", ">\n\nIn other words, conservativism is fundamentally about believing that there is a \"master race\" who is above the law and \"sub humans\" who are beneath it.", ">\n\nRace is an important component of the \"master race\", but not determinative (e.g., Herschel Walker, Ben Carson, Ye, etc.). The most important component for membership is agreement that a group of \"masters\" controls the lives of \"others\".", ">\n\nThose three things are part of a balanced breakfast.", ">\n\nAccording to the bill they tried to pass, in Florida \"Woke' means: \"Telling people that systemic oppression exists/existed\".\nSo I can see why this made their tiny minds rage.", ">\n\nThey'll replace it with a play about how great the Catholic church is probably\nEdit: Catholics are easily triggered apparently", ">\n\nWhy do so many people on reddit think the Catholic church is all that relevant in the US? America was founded by protestants, the biggest church is the Southern Baptists and, the only 2 Catholic US Presidents were JFK and Biden (both democrats).", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure there are no other individual denominations which are as nationally politically powerful - while evangelicals outnumber them, and likely have more political power than them, they aren't unified into a single organization the way that catholics are. Add in the way that Catholicism has an outsized influence in multiple major cities (Boston, NYC, Chicago) due to particular immigrant populations and you have some part of the explanation.", ">\n\nMakes sense, especially if most redditors are from big non-Southern cities", ">\n\nIf irony were made of strawberries, we would be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.", ">\n\nI thought Florida was like the American capital of free speech and fuck your feelings?!", ">\n\nFree Speech (for the “right people” only)\nFuck your feelings (my feelings are all that matter)", ">\n\nBoy, they really are building a \"patriot\" utopia down there, aren't they?", ">\n\nHow… ironic", ">\n\nIt's Florida so what did you expect?", ">\n\nDo those uncultured rubes know that \"The Seagull\" features a suicide attempt? It's probably cool with any school board in Florida, since it was by firearm.", ">\n\nYou’d have thought all the snow flakes would have melted in Florida but here they are.", ">\n\nBundle up folks because the forecast for Florida for the next 20 years is snowflakes...loooots and lots of snowflakes.", ">\n\nFlorida is the new Iran.", ">\n\n“The groups add that the cancelation of Indecent is “deeply hurtful to LGBTQ+ students, including members of the cast, who see the rejection of the play as a denial of the historical experience of LGBTQ+” meanwhile the school previously performed RENT. Victim card denied.", ">\n\nIs it too woke for Republican babies?", ">\n\nJesus fuck the entire conservative movement is so systemically cowardly it boggles the mind.", ">\n\nNo freedom for you!", ">\n\nFlorida students, you can always perform this play in a public park.\nThe school board can't stop you.", ">\n\nNo surprise there.", ">\n\nPray for the people of Florida. They live in Florida, after all.", ">\n\nReplaced by Chekhov's \"The seagull\" -.-", ">\n\nprobably went by title alone to make decision", ">\n\nThis just in: children depicting sex acts is wrong", ">\n\nDisingenuous argument. No one is depicting sex acts in this. It was cancelled for \"Containing adult sexual dialog that is inappropriate for student cast members\"\nDid you read the article?", ">\n\nBreaking News: Redditor doesn't read article", ">\n\nI hardly read this comment", ">\n\nI can't read", ">\n\nTeenagers doing a play about a play being censored because it has a daughter falling in love with a prostitute isnt going to go over well in a publicly funded school. They had to have known that. The play they are replacing it with is a Checkov play. Its hard to find parents to agree to 15 year old's having very adult sexual dialog in a school play. It features two actress's making out on stage. The playwright herself is protesting the decision, but we are talking about a public school. its a school for the arts, but still a public school, and they are all under 18. They had to know this was going to generate controversy. I dont think the high school missed the point, I think they deliberately generated the controversy ,knowing full well the school would shut it down.", ">\n\nConsider the performing arts dead if high schoolers can’t perform plays that have adult topics in them", ">\n\nat that age if you dont know about sex you have to be incredibly sheltered\nwhich theater kids are not,\nwell at least not like that" ]

[]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling..." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago.." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese.", ">\n\nOutside of some of the K-stuff obsessed teenagers going through their phase why would anyone be interested with that?" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese.", ">\n\nOutside of some of the K-stuff obsessed teenagers going through their phase why would anyone be interested with that?", ">\n\n52 year old aussie housewife here, with some bits of korean I’ve picked up from korean dramas on netflix. They are very entertaining." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese.", ">\n\nOutside of some of the K-stuff obsessed teenagers going through their phase why would anyone be interested with that?", ">\n\n52 year old aussie housewife here, with some bits of korean I’ve picked up from korean dramas on netflix. They are very entertaining.", ">\n\nKnowing manga, wasabi, zen, sushi, yuzu and tsunami doesn't make one a person who knows the Japanese language. Can you read Korean words written in Hangul?" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese.", ">\n\nOutside of some of the K-stuff obsessed teenagers going through their phase why would anyone be interested with that?", ">\n\n52 year old aussie housewife here, with some bits of korean I’ve picked up from korean dramas on netflix. They are very entertaining.", ">\n\nKnowing manga, wasabi, zen, sushi, yuzu and tsunami doesn't make one a person who knows the Japanese language. Can you read Korean words written in Hangul?", ">\n\nKpop is cancer" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese.", ">\n\nOutside of some of the K-stuff obsessed teenagers going through their phase why would anyone be interested with that?", ">\n\n52 year old aussie housewife here, with some bits of korean I’ve picked up from korean dramas on netflix. They are very entertaining.", ">\n\nKnowing manga, wasabi, zen, sushi, yuzu and tsunami doesn't make one a person who knows the Japanese language. Can you read Korean words written in Hangul?", ">\n\nKpop is cancer", ">\n\nThey baited and switched by showing us Psy and then giving us boy bands. I think we already did boy bands, thanks." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese.", ">\n\nOutside of some of the K-stuff obsessed teenagers going through their phase why would anyone be interested with that?", ">\n\n52 year old aussie housewife here, with some bits of korean I’ve picked up from korean dramas on netflix. They are very entertaining.", ">\n\nKnowing manga, wasabi, zen, sushi, yuzu and tsunami doesn't make one a person who knows the Japanese language. Can you read Korean words written in Hangul?", ">\n\nKpop is cancer", ">\n\nThey baited and switched by showing us Psy and then giving us boy bands. I think we already did boy bands, thanks.", ">\n\nI am not from this world i guess. I have no clue what k pot and k drum are." ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese.", ">\n\nOutside of some of the K-stuff obsessed teenagers going through their phase why would anyone be interested with that?", ">\n\n52 year old aussie housewife here, with some bits of korean I’ve picked up from korean dramas on netflix. They are very entertaining.", ">\n\nKnowing manga, wasabi, zen, sushi, yuzu and tsunami doesn't make one a person who knows the Japanese language. Can you read Korean words written in Hangul?", ">\n\nKpop is cancer", ">\n\nThey baited and switched by showing us Psy and then giving us boy bands. I think we already did boy bands, thanks.", ">\n\nI am not from this world i guess. I have no clue what k pot and k drum are.", ">\n\nlmao no have you ever met most americans" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese.", ">\n\nOutside of some of the K-stuff obsessed teenagers going through their phase why would anyone be interested with that?", ">\n\n52 year old aussie housewife here, with some bits of korean I’ve picked up from korean dramas on netflix. They are very entertaining.", ">\n\nKnowing manga, wasabi, zen, sushi, yuzu and tsunami doesn't make one a person who knows the Japanese language. Can you read Korean words written in Hangul?", ">\n\nKpop is cancer", ">\n\nThey baited and switched by showing us Psy and then giving us boy bands. I think we already did boy bands, thanks.", ">\n\nI am not from this world i guess. I have no clue what k pot and k drum are.", ">\n\nlmao no have you ever met most americans", ">\n\nWhatever you say, hyung-nim !" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese.", ">\n\nOutside of some of the K-stuff obsessed teenagers going through their phase why would anyone be interested with that?", ">\n\n52 year old aussie housewife here, with some bits of korean I’ve picked up from korean dramas on netflix. They are very entertaining.", ">\n\nKnowing manga, wasabi, zen, sushi, yuzu and tsunami doesn't make one a person who knows the Japanese language. Can you read Korean words written in Hangul?", ">\n\nKpop is cancer", ">\n\nThey baited and switched by showing us Psy and then giving us boy bands. I think we already did boy bands, thanks.", ">\n\nI am not from this world i guess. I have no clue what k pot and k drum are.", ">\n\nlmao no have you ever met most americans", ">\n\nWhatever you say, hyung-nim !", ">\n\nThe men wore make up" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese.", ">\n\nOutside of some of the K-stuff obsessed teenagers going through their phase why would anyone be interested with that?", ">\n\n52 year old aussie housewife here, with some bits of korean I’ve picked up from korean dramas on netflix. They are very entertaining.", ">\n\nKnowing manga, wasabi, zen, sushi, yuzu and tsunami doesn't make one a person who knows the Japanese language. Can you read Korean words written in Hangul?", ">\n\nKpop is cancer", ">\n\nThey baited and switched by showing us Psy and then giving us boy bands. I think we already did boy bands, thanks.", ">\n\nI am not from this world i guess. I have no clue what k pot and k drum are.", ">\n\nlmao no have you ever met most americans", ">\n\nWhatever you say, hyung-nim !", ">\n\nThe men wore make up", ">\n\nYou'd be very surprised how common male makeup is in entertainment/media" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese.", ">\n\nOutside of some of the K-stuff obsessed teenagers going through their phase why would anyone be interested with that?", ">\n\n52 year old aussie housewife here, with some bits of korean I’ve picked up from korean dramas on netflix. They are very entertaining.", ">\n\nKnowing manga, wasabi, zen, sushi, yuzu and tsunami doesn't make one a person who knows the Japanese language. Can you read Korean words written in Hangul?", ">\n\nKpop is cancer", ">\n\nThey baited and switched by showing us Psy and then giving us boy bands. I think we already did boy bands, thanks.", ">\n\nI am not from this world i guess. I have no clue what k pot and k drum are.", ">\n\nlmao no have you ever met most americans", ">\n\nWhatever you say, hyung-nim !", ">\n\nThe men wore make up", ">\n\nYou'd be very surprised how common male makeup is in entertainment/media", ">\n\nlearn hindi instead" ]

[ "Maybe a few words, but not the language. 80 million speakers of the language in the whole world. 1.2 percent of the population. Isolated and homogeneous culture and people. Spoken in 2 countries.... Just will never happen and why language like cantonese are dying.\nFrench, English, Spanish and even Portuguese had colonialism, and you can speak those languages in dozens of countries around the world. Japanese is kinda OK for some business but not much else. Mandarin gets you a few countries but 1.6 billion people.\nSad fact is only reason to learn Korean (assuming not etthnic Korean) is if you move there. Even then, most Koreans speak some English.", ">\n\nIf someone knows English, Spanish and Mandarin, it's pretty much the trinity of business languages and very broad reaching. It would open so many doors.", ">\n\nI studied both Spanish and Mandarin in college and it’s not really that useful professionally haha, the sad truth is English basically already opens up so many doors the other ones are kind of just a bonus for traveling...", ">\n\nDepends on your profession and the demographic of your city. I'm a physiotherapist in Australia and being able to speak English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have netted me regular clients that I probably wouldn't have gotten if I only knew English. I can also speak French but there is not many French where I am.", ">\n\nIt just requires intention. Speaking a critical language and having an advanced skill/qualification in addition to English means you're instantly very much more desirable to a whole lot of niches. It's not gonna get you a job working at an American company at a normal desk job, but why would anyone think it would? It would immediately get you the job over any non speaker for a job that even slightly benefits from it.", ">\n\nit's gonna be like japanese. god-tier ~~weebs~~ k-pop fans will learn it and that's about it", ">\n\nExcept the demographic is completely different. Most fans of Korean culture and media are women whereas most fans of Japanese culture and media are men. \nIt’s been well established that women are much better at learning languages as well", ">\n\nThe target audience definitely seems to be women for those Kdramas and variety shows. Anecdotally it is women I see learning the language, usually because of these shows.", ">\n\nIt is difficult for English speakers to learn, but I really enjoy trying.", ">\n\nAll I care about is the Korean food, you can have the rest.", ">\n\nteokbokki!", ">\n\nGimbap is my new obsession. It’s the perfect lunch!", ">\n\nAdd some instant ramyun then we're talking.", ">\n\ngamsahamnida", ">\n\nThe correct reply to this post", ">\n\nThis title read as a movie voice-over", ">\n\nProbably not. Passively consuming media and acquiring language proficiency are not on the same level of commitment.", ">\n\nA tribe in Indonesia adopted the Korean alphabet several years ago..", ">\n\nI can kind of see it. \nA friends daughter is obsessed with everything Korean. Like to a seriously unhealthy level. And her friends are the same.", ">\n\nFandom and learning the language are worlds apart.\nLike Japanese isn't especially demanded or spoken in the US by non Japanese.\nThe Korean stuff is newer and more accommodating of the English language too.", ">\n\nIt would probably help that K POP and K Dramas are a little less immediately problematic than anime is. Last year, at least two of the most talked about anime out were about a pedophile (jobless reincarnation) and a rapist (redo of healer) respectively. In fact some of the most popular anime of all time (Monogatari, Berserk, No Game No Life, Evangelion) touch on themes like those, so there'll pretty much always be a barrier for anime in that regard. Until anime stops being as weird as it is, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that people will continue to not adopt the language and cultures represented in anime en masse.\nK-POP on the surface is comparatively benign and so naturally it can drive more people. Provided nothing significant happens to tarnish the industry's reputation, I can see it influencing more people to learn and speak Korean.", ">\n\n...Yeah, that is an actually bad take.\nThe face of anime is not that to the general public, in the same way the rampant abuse and resulting suicide of k-pop stars isn't the face of K-pop.\nAnd I say this as someone who is pretty critical of anime.", ">\n\nAs a foreign learner of Korean I can attest to how difficult it is to learn. So I doubt it.", ">\n\nIsn't the Korean alphabet or character system designed to basically work with any language? Something like that anyway", ">\n\nBoth k pop and drama aren't going anywhere.", ">\n\nThey’re also still not that popular in the west, despite what articles like this try to say", ">\n\nAfter de-characterization, Korean Language is actually an incomplete system in writing. Unless you are willing to accept long long sentences and ambiguity everywhere.", ">\n\nIts a fad, it wil fade just like everything else.", ">\n\nI mean, I’m sure tons of people will study it to a small degree and be able to speak a little due to K-pop and stuff. And there will be some people that get a degree in the language and still are mediocre at it, and maybe a few will get good enough to use it daily, but never have job relevance? Or maybe teach English in Korea or something. \nThat’s basically how it feels with Japanese, so I would expect Korean to follow a similar trajectory. Except reading Korean should be exponentially simpler.", ">\n\nI love Korean Dramas. The are amazing. \nLook up, My one and only love song. It so good . I saw it on Netflix and it just boom everything you want in a story.", ">\n\nAgreed. Attorney Woo on Netflix was an exceptional show", ">\n\nTheres one I can't remember the name of. But it blew my mind completely off. \n\" The future is here, it's just not available to everyone.\"\nBest line ever.", ">\n\nNo.", ">\n\nIt's going to survive but until something changes, english and Spanish are going to be the only languages that survive. I'm talking about 100's of years so of course things can change", ">\n\nWhat you mean? All other languages are going to die you think?", ">\n\nApparently yes, including Mandarin, don't know why.", ">\n\nNot until they adopt Latin alphabet.", ">\n\nThe Korean alphabet isn’t difficult. It was created to be easy to learn. \nFun fact about the creation of the Korean alphabet \"Hangul\":\nIn the 1400s a king wanted the written language to be reformed because a lot of lower class people weren’t able to read/write \nso he demanded an alphabet which \"The wise can learn in one day and the illiterates can learn in one week\". This leads to the creation of Hangul", ">\n\nNever said it's difficult.", ">\n\nAre we signing up for a class action lawsuit against South Korea?", ">\n\naint nobody got time for that", ">\n\nHighly doubt it. Why learn a language that is only used on a relatively tiny peninsula? I’d rather learn Spanish first. Or heck even Mandarin and Japanese.", ">\n\nOutside of some of the K-stuff obsessed teenagers going through their phase why would anyone be interested with that?", ">\n\n52 year old aussie housewife here, with some bits of korean I’ve picked up from korean dramas on netflix. They are very entertaining.", ">\n\nKnowing manga, wasabi, zen, sushi, yuzu and tsunami doesn't make one a person who knows the Japanese language. Can you read Korean words written in Hangul?", ">\n\nKpop is cancer", ">\n\nThey baited and switched by showing us Psy and then giving us boy bands. I think we already did boy bands, thanks.", ">\n\nI am not from this world i guess. I have no clue what k pot and k drum are.", ">\n\nlmao no have you ever met most americans", ">\n\nWhatever you say, hyung-nim !", ">\n\nThe men wore make up", ">\n\nYou'd be very surprised how common male makeup is in entertainment/media", ">\n\nlearn hindi instead", ">\n\nyeah the Japanese tried that in like 15 years ago. we only learned a few world but it didn't work out." ]

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[ "He didn't actually get those committee seats, he just put them on his resume...\n/S" ]

[ "He didn't actually get those committee seats, he just put them on his resume...\n/S", ">\n\nDouble dicked him!" ]

[ "He didn't actually get those committee seats, he just put them on his resume...\n/S", ">\n\nDouble dicked him!", ">\n\nWell given all his Nobel Prizes and the fact that he’s CEO of so many Fortune 500 companies that only makes sense." ]

[ "He didn't actually get those committee seats, he just put them on his resume...\n/S", ">\n\nDouble dicked him!", ">\n\nWell given all his Nobel Prizes and the fact that he’s CEO of so many Fortune 500 companies that only makes sense.", ">\n\nHe’s also the only Super Bowl winning President to visit Jupiter’s surface." ]

[ "He didn't actually get those committee seats, he just put them on his resume...\n/S", ">\n\nDouble dicked him!", ">\n\nWell given all his Nobel Prizes and the fact that he’s CEO of so many Fortune 500 companies that only makes sense.", ">\n\nHe’s also the only Super Bowl winning President to visit Jupiter’s surface.", ">\n\nAnd his cure for cancer also solved world hunger, take that liberal media." ]

[ "He didn't actually get those committee seats, he just put them on his resume...\n/S", ">\n\nDouble dicked him!", ">\n\nWell given all his Nobel Prizes and the fact that he’s CEO of so many Fortune 500 companies that only makes sense.", ">\n\nHe’s also the only Super Bowl winning President to visit Jupiter’s surface.", ">\n\nAnd his cure for cancer also solved world hunger, take that liberal media.", ">\n\nHe's the current and future mayor of space.\nThat's one the libs never like to admit." ]

[ "He didn't actually get those committee seats, he just put them on his resume...\n/S", ">\n\nDouble dicked him!", ">\n\nWell given all his Nobel Prizes and the fact that he’s CEO of so many Fortune 500 companies that only makes sense.", ">\n\nHe’s also the only Super Bowl winning President to visit Jupiter’s surface.", ">\n\nAnd his cure for cancer also solved world hunger, take that liberal media.", ">\n\nHe's the current and future mayor of space.\nThat's one the libs never like to admit.", ">\n\nMakes sense, considering the amount of respect Republicans have for both small business owners and science." ]

[ "He didn't actually get those committee seats, he just put them on his resume...\n/S", ">\n\nDouble dicked him!", ">\n\nWell given all his Nobel Prizes and the fact that he’s CEO of so many Fortune 500 companies that only makes sense.", ">\n\nHe’s also the only Super Bowl winning President to visit Jupiter’s surface.", ">\n\nAnd his cure for cancer also solved world hunger, take that liberal media.", ">\n\nHe's the current and future mayor of space.\nThat's one the libs never like to admit.", ">\n\nMakes sense, considering the amount of respect Republicans have for both small business owners and science.", ">\n\nThe biggest of fucking oofs. Amazingly" ]

[ "He didn't actually get those committee seats, he just put them on his resume...\n/S", ">\n\nDouble dicked him!", ">\n\nWell given all his Nobel Prizes and the fact that he’s CEO of so many Fortune 500 companies that only makes sense.", ">\n\nHe’s also the only Super Bowl winning President to visit Jupiter’s surface.", ">\n\nAnd his cure for cancer also solved world hunger, take that liberal media.", ">\n\nHe's the current and future mayor of space.\nThat's one the libs never like to admit.", ">\n\nMakes sense, considering the amount of respect Republicans have for both small business owners and science.", ">\n\nThe biggest of fucking oofs. Amazingly", ">\n\nJust so pathetic. Republicans still have majority in the house so this is the easiest softball to throw to look at least a LITTLE responsible and they can’t even do that. Was keeping him on one of those secret conditions Kevin had to make to win Speaker?" ]