[jazzyjackson]

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

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

[chadgpt3]

The point: you call them "functionally illiterate" when you don't like them. Otherwise, you call them something else.

[jazzyjackson]

I guess one could use it as an insult but I’ve only heard it as a practical descriptor for someone who can read the headlines but not the article