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I want to thank the TP trolls for demonstrating the very serious problem of the dumbing-down of America.
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I want to thank the TP trolls for demonstrating the very serious problem of the dumbing-down of America.
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Bill Hicks is a name that should also be included in that list: a comic who never reached a mass audience in the U.S. but whose corrosively funny take on the politics of me-first and the dumbing-down of consumer culture places him squarely in the Bruce school of truth-tellers.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: American: The Bill Hicks Story Marshall Fine 2011
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I want to thank the TP trolls for demonstrating the very serious problem of the dumbing-down of America.
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I hate to think of it as a manifestation of our decline, which some have postulated, a kind of dumbing-down of American culture.
Warren Adler: Where is Our Culture Heading? Warren Adler 2011
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The prizes recognize literary sins such as clichés, dumbing-down, bad grammar, pomposity and overall incoherence.
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The awards recognize defects such as clichés, bad grammar, psychobabble, redundancy, pomposity, dumbing-down or overall inanity.
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The ‘dumbing-down’ of education is a ‘hot topic’ at the moment in the UK, with claims that exam standards have fallen over the last three or four decades.
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The awards recognize defects such as clichés, bad grammar, psychobabble, redundancy, pomposity, dumbing-down or overall inanity.
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I want to thank the TP trolls for demonstrating the very serious problem of the dumbing-down of America.
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