On this episode of: “Let’s make ignorant statements disparaging Mississippi,” our contestant this week is Joyce Carol Oates! What earned Oates the extreme prestige of being nominated for “Ethan Lee’s idiot of the week award,” you might ask yourself? She thinks that Mississippians don’t read!
First and foremost, Joyce Carol Oates apparently believes that illiteracy is a humorous thing. Which, that in itself is an incredibly elitist, bullshit way of living life. Imagine taking pleasure in mocking those that can’t read because they didn’t have access to the tools necessary to learn how to read. I imagine that’s how Joyce Carol Oates spends her evenings.