Is Math Racist?

Christian Post ^ | 07/10/2023 | John Stonestreet, G. Shane Morris

[Sacajaweau]

White folks do not have a monopoly on brains....they just work harder to use them to their benefit.

[exDemMom]

But by depriving them of objective truths they are subjugating them to bad ideas.

That's a feature, not a bug.

[V_TWIN]

What happens when you teach a minority they are victims for 60 years?......THIS for one thing.

[Lizavetta]

“math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.”

Why, because it requires them to study? This is yet another one of the left's fantasy "barriers".

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Is race racist?

Trying to make claims about individual worth in any way based on skin color is racist. Period. The Democrats need racism as a political cudgel ,and so stoke the embers of racism into fires.

[PGR88]

[RoosterRedux]

Math is not only racist (apparent it hates all races and ethnic groups), but it is irritating, aggravating, and downright obstinant.

That said, once you get over all the above, it is like an obstacle course that makes you stronger and more sure-footed intellectually.

And, once you get accustomed to its difficult nature, it is even fun.

[Bon of Babble]

...for K-12 math teachers in several pilot schools claim that “mathematical knowledge has been appropriated by Western culture” and that “math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.”

How do you "appropriate" math?

And exactly how is it being used to "oppress and marginalize" POCs?

Let's have some specific examples.

These entirely reasonable and appropriate questions are never asked by journalists.

You either "get" math or you don't - and lefties want to tell us math is "racist" b/c not everyone understands it.

[Sacajaweau]

And pay them, too. The Fed Gov pay about $2 billion every year to the tribes...and that’s excluding the side stuff they get locally.

[glorgau]

Everything is racist. That includes exhaling carbon dioxide.

[cgbg]

“how is it being used to “oppress and marginalize” POCs?”

Answer: Low IQ folks can’t figure it out...

If everyone was stupid then we could have the real “equity” the leftists desire.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Our numbering system is based on the fact we have ten fingers. If some races had six on each hand for a total of 12, then they could cry “RACIST!” but we don’t.

[George J. Jetso]

Black ink on white paper is racist.

[dfwgator]

There are 10 kinds of people, those who know binary, and those who don’t.

[GingisK]

I’ve always wondered if those monks who labored through various Taylor Series to make the math tables enjoyed their work.

[Lizavetta]

And exactly how is it being used to "oppress and marginalize" POCs? Let's have some specific examples.

The lack of blacks in the field is proof enough. /sarc

But yes, specific examples of how the same test given to black and white students is somehow unfair to the black student but not the white student.

What no one cares to admit that public schools that black students tend to be in are bad schools (and Democrat run) and that American black culture as a whole does NOT value education because that would be "acting white."

[metmom]

Things are not inherently racist.

But people who see racism in EVERYTHING are.

[Karma_Sherab]

“how is it being used to “oppress and marginalize” POCs?”
Answer: Low IQ folks can’t figure it out...

Bet cha they can break up 20 kilos into various weights and calculate the amount of $ for each without a problem....

[V_TWIN]

If this isn’t the soft bigotry of low expectations nothing is.