Posted on 02/25/2021 3:31:31 AM PST by MtnClimber
Across America, math teaching practices that were considered essential are suddenly being condemned as racist.
In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, set in the superstate of Oceania, the government propagates the absurd equation 2 + 2 = 5. Through steady indoctrination, and under the ever-watchful Thought Police, the citizens accept it as an unquestionable truth. The equation symbolizes the extinction of free thought in repressive totalitarian societies: facts, truths and objective reality are subordinated to political will and twisted to serve the authoritarian goals of the Party and its leader, Big Brother.
Something similar is happening in many American schools. An eerie Orwellian shadow is being cast over math instruction. The focus is insidiously shifting from arithmetic, geometry, and algebra to critical race theory, ethnic studies, and intersectionality. Ridiculous as it may sound, an objective field of knowledge is being thrust into the realm of social experimentation. Students are being taught not how to think but what to think. Instead of developing critical thinking skills, today’s math classes stipulate that students hold particular views about the world and instruct them on how they must extinguish what is posited as “wrongthink.”
Across America, math teaching practices that were considered essential are suddenly being condemned as racist, requiring students to display the steps in solving a problem is now deemed white supremacist; teachers’ corrections, and even the concept of a correct answer, are considered suspect or undesirable; polite interaction, raising hands before commenting or asking questions, and maintaining order in the classroom are viewed as reinforcing paternalism and condemned as “power hoarding.”
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People who can spell are racist.
And a thousand times racist if a person knows how to put money in an investment and delay gratification rather than going out on the town and blowing half their paycheck.
Racists, racist, racist EVERYWHERE... PEOPLE WHO CAN SPELL, PEOPLE WHO CAN WRITE, PEOPLE WHO CAN DO MATH... ALL RACISTS!!!
People who can spell are racist.
And a thousand times racist if a person knows how to put money in an investment and delay gratification rather than going out on the town and blowing half their paycheck.
Racists, racist, racist EVERYWHERE... PEOPLE WHO CAN SPELL, PEOPLE WHO CAN WRITE, PEOPLE WHO CAN DO MATH... ALL RACISTS!!! ALL WHITE SUPREMACISTS - THEY’RE EVERYWHERE...
Oh, I know ethno-fascism is on the march.
But I believe they have no idea what they are marching into.
They forget that white people invented killing on an industrial scale.
And their anti-white racism is but provocation.
I don't recall if it was true, or possibly from a Heinlein story, where some idiot legislator tried to pass a law stating that pi == 3.
It's been years, does anyone else remember that?
Mark
And then they elect people like Maxine Waters. They think they're voting for their "King."
Mark
My preference of pi is definitely three, apple, banana cream and anything peanut butter.
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Mighty racist of you to exclude peach cobbler, you antipeachite.
Very true. All the statistical near impossibilities we saw involving the vote counts meant nothing to people who have no understanding of math.
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