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If Dr. Seuss and Math are Racist, Everything’s Racist
dbdailyupdate ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 02/27/2021 5:04:56 AM PST by EyesOfTX

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1 posted on 02/27/2021 5:04:56 AM PST by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

These commies are madder than a March hare.


2 posted on 02/27/2021 5:07:48 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: EyesOfTX

Keep telling people they are racist and they will become so.
13% of the population would do well to realize that.


3 posted on 02/27/2021 5:08:50 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: EyesOfTX

Not my circus. Not my monkeys.
But If I Ran The Circus, I’d throw these people to the lions.


4 posted on 02/27/2021 5:09:04 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: EyesOfTX

Which one is racist? Thing 1 or Thing 2?


5 posted on 02/27/2021 5:11:33 AM PST by maddog55 ((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
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To: bk1000

Don’t ask what your country can do for you... Ask what you can do for your country .

It’s the only way to live.


6 posted on 02/27/2021 5:16:53 AM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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To: bk1000

Biden news drought MSM has to revert to ban and racism to fill dead air time.


7 posted on 02/27/2021 5:25:52 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: maddog55

I think since they he watered down/changed the true meaning of racist, I think we should turn it into meaning “cool”,kind of like they did to the meaning “sick”. I gave a teenager a cool game for his nintendo and when he opened it said “that’s really sick!” i looked at him shocked and astounded. He said “No, that means it’s really cool”. so when things are cool, we need to say with a thumbs up “ Hey that’s really racist”.


8 posted on 02/27/2021 5:30:57 AM PST by growingpains
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To: EyesOfTX

“Hey, guess what else is racist now? – If I said the occupation of sports analytics, “

I’m sure this can easily be said “racist”, but I have heard several Black football “analysts” and it seems a lot of them cannot speak English properly, I cannot understand what they are saying.

It is too bad that speaking proper English is “White Privilege” and racist.


9 posted on 02/27/2021 5:36:02 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Let’s eliminate math for blacks. Then there will be no “equity” or “equality” issues.


10 posted on 02/27/2021 5:48:07 AM PST by Senator_Blutarski
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To: EyesOfTX

Ironically, Math departments ARE racist... but in a very different way. Calculus is used to weed out people that are deemed by a bizarrely 19th-century thought process to be incapable of learning engineering, computer science, physics, higher math, chemistry, etc. It’s made deliberately difficult, so people avoid it. But without Calculus, most of High School math is just bull$**t. Who cares about tangents and sins if you’re not going to use them to describe a curve?

By making Calculus a field for only the elite, we’re making an elite class of STEM-competent people, and an ignorant underclass of mathematical illiterates.

The thing is, the current system doesn’t select the smartest people to move past Calculus; it selects those with a certain kind of confidence that women, Black people, etc., are more likely to lack. Worked on me, a white male, too. I dropped Calculus 1 in favor of Survey of Calculus when I got a 10 out of 100 on a test on which I got all 20 problems correct. I rue that. Especially since the professor threw out all the grades from before the final exam.

Don’t rid engineering of math requirements. Quit using Calculus as proxy for a GRE/SAT score.


11 posted on 02/27/2021 5:48:14 AM PST by dangus
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To: bk1000

You are absolutely correct. I remember reading Pygmalion in the classroom. If you tell teachers the kids are smart, they treat them that way...and vice versa. If you teach them them they are racist, they will become so.

My entire generation experienced set asides and affirmative action. We were none too happy about it. But we lived with it. I lost jobs because I wasn’t black....was told so... But THAT wasn’t racist. They got paid for having kids out of wedlock. I limited the size of my family because I couldn’t afford the number of kids I wanted.

I made sacrifices. I worked hard. I experienced discrimination AS A WHITE WOMAN.

Now my kids had to stand in class and apologize for being white. I earned multiple degrees... No pell grants, scholarships. I paid for them.

I lived overseas and experienced life as an outsider. I have a degree in engineering but returned to a life of service as a teacher....TO HELP.

I tutored for free. I provided food for free. I cave up my lunch hour to counsel kids. I gave to charities. It was never enough. It will NEVER be enough.

My kids live a life of service...IT IS NEVER ENOUGH.

I AM DONE. GO AHEAD AND CALL ME A RACIST.

THIS IS SO WRONG.


12 posted on 02/27/2021 5:48:42 AM PST by Whatever Works
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To: EyesOfTX

Don’t see a problem with the schools doing that - after all they are FREE!!! If I chose anything other than the free schools, I wouldn’t have the money I needed to live in my house, or buy that truck (oooh, that truck). So, the schools, what the hell, they’re free and if my children come out screwed for life, fine, it beats not keeping up with the Jones!


13 posted on 02/27/2021 5:48:57 AM PST by BobL
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To: EyesOfTX

FTA: “I put 2 cups of milk/water in my oatmeal; there are 2 cups in a quart;”

Since there are 4 cups in a quart, your oatmeal is either too thick or too thin, depending how you make the error. Plus, that’s a lot of oatmeal unless you’re feeding an entire large family.


14 posted on 02/27/2021 5:49:14 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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It used to be you’d go to school to clean up misconceptions you had, faulty logic, holes in your understanding, errors. Now you go there to learn them.


15 posted on 02/27/2021 5:53:11 AM PST by MarDav
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To: EyesOfTX

Yes everything is racist. If you take blacks out of society, racism would drop tremendously. Think about it


16 posted on 02/27/2021 5:53:17 AM PST by Lee25 ( )
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To: EyesOfTX
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3938042/posts?page=1

The above thread was a recent post from Campus Reform about a Professor who, upon giving a survey to his incoming students over the last 11 years, found that 4% > 96%, as the majority believed that the USofA basically invented and is responsible for historic slavery!

In point of fact, for the years preceding 1810 (British impose Royal Navy anti-slave trade operations), only 4% of the slaves came north of French Louisiana!

As for me, in this tax season and preparing them as an EA, I can just imagine using “treat mistakes as problems by equating them with wrongness” as a defense in a clients return! Should really go over well ... NOT!

17 posted on 02/27/2021 5:56:31 AM PST by SES1066 (I love my Country, but I fear too much Government!)
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To: EyesOfTX; All
Remember when it was an absolutely horrible thing to call someone a racist? It was a certain kiss of death. You could ruin someone's career and life over just the accusation.

Then as it became more and more common, it became almost a badge of honor to be called a racist because you knew your opponent had nothing else in their quiver to fire. They'd run out of legitimate arguments so they fell back on the reliable ad hominem attack.

Now it is so commonplace as to be meaningless. Nobody cares anymore. So you're a racist. Big deal. What else is new?

We've reached the point where if everybody and everything thing are racist, then nothing is racist. It carries no negative impact anymore.

It actually reflects worse on the person who hurls the term as an attack, than the person being called a racist.

We've come full circle.

18 posted on 02/27/2021 6:03:11 AM PST by HotHunt
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Short but very insightful look at Morgan Freeman's take on racism. It's not what you'd expect.

Mike Wallace Interview on 60 Minutes with Morgan Freeman On Racism

19 posted on 02/27/2021 6:16:18 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: EyesOfTX

How would you like to be an astronaut relying on people getting you safely back from the moon who didn’t have to learn math correctly because that would be racist?


20 posted on 02/27/2021 6:16:33 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (Election Fraud Deniers--Won't follow the science, won't follow the law.)
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