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Math Professor Mocks a Leftist Belief and Gets Fired
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | May 1, 2020 | George Leef

Posted on 05/01/2020 6:00:51 AM PDT by karpov

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To: karpov
The entire concept of 'microaggressions' is pure pschycobabble to start with, designed to put people who aren't mentally imbalanced on the defensive.

Anyone who actually thinks that “being forced to choose Male or Female when completing basic forms” is some sort of painful experience needs to be locked up in a rubber room, not catered to.

21 posted on 05/01/2020 6:31:59 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: bwest

If someone wants to go undercover, that’s not the way to do it.


22 posted on 05/01/2020 6:34:05 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: teeman8r

I was already thinking that when I first saw the thread.

C

in before the picture of the UNT mug.


23 posted on 05/01/2020 6:35:06 AM PDT by Dacula (Day 6 of Georgia opening up and I am still alive)
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To: a fool in paradise

It was a MACRO aggression to accost him, threaten him, give him a chance to recant and save himself, then fire him.

It is so ironic that the same people who get their panties all twisted up over a trivial, minuscule perceived affront aren’t afraid to roll out the big cannon and obliterate their enemies with MACROAGGRESSIONS. Their responses are always like Hitler “annexing” the Sudetenland.


24 posted on 05/01/2020 6:35:20 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Dacula

I need to learn how to post pictures.


25 posted on 05/01/2020 6:35:26 AM PDT by Dacula (Day 6 of Georgia opening up and I am still alive)
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To: ShadowAce

Exactly 3 lectures, same material. Hard part would be grading & dealing with students.


26 posted on 05/01/2020 6:39:28 AM PDT by Reily
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To: karpov
Those who refuse to understand that math is racist are likely to wind up in re-education camps.

A word to the wise is sufficient.

27 posted on 05/01/2020 6:42:43 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, praying for guidance, giving his salary to charity, is on the Side of the Angels.)
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To: karpov

And yet, idiot parents are lined up around the block to get their kids into these institutions.


28 posted on 05/01/2020 6:43:16 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: karpov

What should be done....though of course it will never happen.....is that state boards of regents and the like should categorize diversity of thought as part of required diversity. That of course means Leftists need not apply to Academic positions for many years until American universities have a faculty whose worldviews reflect those of the American people rather than those of Marxists - cultural and traditional.


29 posted on 05/01/2020 6:44:28 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: knarf

THE PROBLEM in America is TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT, period!!!!! This country was not founded on FULL TIME people making six-figured salaries and multi-millions taking bribes!! They were suppose to be part time, but not in Amerika today, nope, they are full time thieves and bought and paid for crooks of the liberal elites.


30 posted on 05/01/2020 6:46:59 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible predicted these type of days. Pray to the LORD GOD for mercy on this Republic.)
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To: karpov

A chalkboard??? What is this? The olden days?


31 posted on 05/01/2020 6:51:05 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberaln would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: karpov

Gonna be interesting when a student feels micro-agressed by a “right” angle.


32 posted on 05/01/2020 6:55:10 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberaln would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

I remember getting my first calculus exam back and feeling very proof-aggressed!


33 posted on 05/01/2020 6:58:48 AM PDT by Reily
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To: karpov

More and more it’s time for people to understand Aaron Zelman:

”If every German Jew and anti-Nazi had possessed a Mauser rifle, twenty rounds and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic.”

and Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”


34 posted on 05/01/2020 7:01:16 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: karpov

Liberal academics at the University of Tennessee couldn’t justify the liberal arts classes so they put the degrees of Microbiology and other sciences into the B.A. program and after four years one received a B.A. instead of a B.S. Because those disciplines were in the B.A. program the administration required those students to take a certain number of liberal arts courses. Ridiculous. I lacked two of these liberal arts courses to receive degrees in Microbiology, Biology, Zoology, and a minor in Biochemistry. I filled in two science courses instead of a liberal class instead.


35 posted on 05/01/2020 7:20:00 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Paladin2
I think that linear algebra is a very active field in maths, if not the most active. Especially right now as the deep learning algorithms use it extensively. No there seems like lots of new exciting discovers have been coming out of linear algebra for at least the last 5 years probably closer to 10. These aren't necessarily just faster algorithms either but deep insights. Although the faster algorithms is a big deal too. As you might guess I like linear algebra, terrible at it, but man is it cool.

As far as teaching it - there does seem to be several ways of going about each which take awhile for students to understand why it is so powerful and get bogged down in the mechanics of matrix vector multipication and miss what its can do and model - There is no royal road to mathematics

36 posted on 05/01/2020 7:20:40 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: bwest

Sounds like only 4 hours of classes a day.


37 posted on 05/01/2020 7:22:14 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: karpov

The best response to an accusation of microaggression is to offer an immediate, unconditional microapology.


38 posted on 05/01/2020 7:25:52 AM PDT by Clioman
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To: karpov

How foolish they look.


39 posted on 05/01/2020 7:34:17 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Praise the lord and pass the ammunition.)
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To: karpov

“Schmidt made it clear that he objected to Hiers’ mockery”. Now you know who left the crap on the table.


40 posted on 05/01/2020 7:36:13 AM PDT by richardtavor
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