Posted on 02/27/2021 5:04:56 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Ok, so, Dr. Seuss books are now racist. – No, I’m not making that up:
From the story at DailyWire:
A national educators organization is telling schools to avoid reading Dr. Seuss because the children’s books allegedly have “racial undertones.”
For more than 20 years, March 2 has been recognized as Read Across America Day in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday. The reading recognition day was founded by the National Education Association — the nation’s largest labor union — in 1998. This year’s theme is “Create and Celebrate Diversity.”
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The researchers surveyed 50 Dr. Seuss books and concluded that there is not enough diversity in the children’s books, many of which were written in the 1950s.
“Of the 2,240 (identified) human characters, there are 45 of color representing two percent of the total number of human characters,” the study reads. Of the 45 characters of color, 43 “exhibited behaviors and appearances that align with harmful and stereotypical Orientalist tropes.”
Learning for Justice alleges that many of the non-white characters in Dr. Seuss’s books were men and were “subservient” to the white characters in his book.
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Honestly, I don’t even know what to say to that.
Hey, guess what else is racist now? – If I said the occupation of sports analytics, would you have guessed correctly? No?
Well, no worries – if we sat around trying to think of everything in our world that is now suddenly racist, we’d have no time to eat or poop. Oops, that’s probably racist, too, come to think of it.
But back to this sports analytics deal. Check this out:
Ok, so, most of the people in the profession of sports analytics are white and male, and that makes it all racist. But the NBA is overwhelmingly black and male, but that’s not racist. See how this works? No? Ok, let this clown writer for the Boston Globe explain it all to you:
The lack of diversity is possibly most striking at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which started as a meeting of analytic minds and has morphed into a big-ticket event, attracting stars across all sports and bringing them to the intersection of data, culture, and innovation.
“You can see it at the Sloan Conference,” Sparks said. “I think pretty noticeably — a lot of people you pass in halls and people giving presentations. It’s definitely changed in the last two or three years, I’d say, for more diversity. But a lot of people there are white guys that look just like me.”
This year, Sloan is sponsoring 10 Black undergraduate students to attend the virtual conference, and has 13 women or people of color among its list of speakers and panelists.
As the country faced a racial reckoning last year in the wake of the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, many in the sports data community were forced to look in the mirror and examine ways to make a growing industry more inclusive.
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Ok, now, understand this: The people moaning right now about the lack of diversity in the [checks notes] sports analytics field – a field whose very basis lies in an intricate knowledge of and expertise in mathematics – are the very same people who have been running around for the last decade screaming that mathematics itself is…wait for it…RACIST! No seriously, really, that’s a thing:
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is bankrolling a group of activists who believe math is racist.
A group of fringe educators have compiled a six-part toolkit offering an “integrated approach” to developing an “anti-racist math practice” viewed through a social justice lens. It chides the “concept of mathematics being purely objective” as “unequivocally false.” It argues focusing on the “right answer” to math equations is an example of white supremacy.
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A group of fringe educators have compiled a six-part toolkit offering an “integrated approach” to developing an “anti-racist math practice” viewed through a social justice lens. It chides the “concept of mathematics being purely objective” as “unequivocally false.” It argues focusing on the “right answer” to math equations is an example of white supremacy.
The toolkit focuses on the 2021 progressive buzzword of “equity” and claims white supremacy and mathematics go hand in hand.
The resources help educators rid their classrooms of the scourge of racist math by making their students dumber. For example, the lessons in Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction warn educators that “white supremacy culture” shows up in the classroom when teachers “treat mistakes as problems by equating them with wrongness” because it “reinforces the ideas of perfectionism (that students shouldn’t make mistakes) and paternalism (teachers or other experts can and should correct mistakes).”
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So, on the one hand you have leftist activists brainwashing teachers and black students to believe that having a real understanding of mathematics is racist while at the same time complaining that an occupation that is based entirely on getting the right answers to complex mathematics problems and applying those right answers to the sporting world doesn’t have enough black people in it.
Something about this equation just doesn’t add up.
Think about it: Our entire lives are based on math and numbers and an understanding of them and why they’re important. I get up at 5 in the morning; I try to have these posts up by 7; Ancient Aliens is on channel 269; the entire Ancient Aliens theory is based on the number 9; or maybe it’s 10; or maybe it’s 12, or 3 – it varies from episode to episode; I put 2 cups of milk/water in my oatmeal; there are 2 cups in a quart; if you don’t know basic math, how do you balance a checkbook; the entire business world is a mathematics problem; you lose about 30% of your paycheck to taxes; you can’t learn music if you can’t do math; you get 6 points for a touchdown but only 3 points for a field goal in football, but you only get 3 points for a field goal in basketball if both your feet are behind that 3-point line; it’s 53 degrees outside as I type this, but it’s gonna be 65 degrees at 3 o’clock; there are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute; it takes 3 hours and 45 minutes to drive from my house to downtown Houston; on and on and on this goes.
Pretty much everything we do in our daily lives boils down to numbers and math problems, yet we have leftist activists actively brainwashing and shaming teachers into refusing to properly teach black kids math because it’s “racist” and then complaining because a profession whose entire foundation is a keen understanding of mathematics doesn’t have enough black people employed in it.
If Dr. Seuss and math are racist, what isn’t?
You just could never make this stuff up, not in a million bazillion years.
That is all.
It really is all about their intense hatred for anything that is part of American culture and wanting to eliminate American culture.
Also,who would you rather pilot your jetliner? A pilot that is smoking a cigarette or joint?
They are racist and they want us all dead. First they want us to dig our own graves, bury us and take our stuff.
You’d be all right, because the black woman who does the math for everyone would save you.
Electricity is totally racist—created by white folks.
It is insanely hypocritical for any virtuous person to use it at any time.
His books make it fun and easier for kids to learn to read. Reading is an invention of the white man and is a tool to keep all other races in subjugation. It must be eradicated. This is essentially their argument.
Now in CA some idiot school board trustee is saying that returning to in-person learning is white supremacist ideology, slavery.
Yep.
Anything that promotes Judeo-Christian ideas and values or opposes Communism or socialism is racist.
Now he gets it.
Some people just have to live aggrieved lives, being the subjects of perpetual victimhood.
I’m racist.
You’re racist.
We’re all racist.
Let’s get some ice cream!
(Nominated for random post of the day.)
If everything is...
...nothing is.
Booja! Yah nailed it!
But, I’d widen the target a bit. It is about destroying Western civilization. The identity politics crappola (i.e., which led to critical race theory, and everything is racist) came out of of the heads of a couple of European intellectuals in the last century. Like with Marxism it was latched onto by others as a thing to talk about to show that you were cool (and therefore might get laid). Since nobody had the sense or courage to slap them upside the head it snow balled from there.
Recall the stoned/drunk late-night conversations about “what if you could go back in time and could kill baby Hitler?” I’ve a couple of names to add to that list.
> “Of the 2,240 (identified) human characters, there are 45 of color representing two percent of the total number of human characters,”...
This raciss group is using maths! Cancel them!!!
Well Dr Seuss did make some rather interesting cartoons way in the past. And no matter how far in the past it is till a “kill shot” today.
https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/d8d3ee10-86f5-4a41-aa20-fec4c8ea1c2e/Dr.%20Seuss%20Woodpile.jpeg
If everything is racist, then nothing is racist.
Time to dispense with the whole concept.
When everything you are willing to offer will still not be enough, the correct response is to offer....nothing.
They will still hate you, but you still have your time and assets to spend on what you like.
If we would stop keeping statistics by race, except for relevant health data, everything would improve dramatically and in a very short time.
Bingo! All that doesn’t fit the Leftist agenda is Racist. Soon being called a racist will become badge of honor—like being called a deplorable or worse-A Trump supporter. Words have meaning.
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