Posted on 03/01/2021 7:01:47 PM PST by Rummyfan
I am not at all qualified to introduce today’s guest writer, Sergiu Klainerman.
I barely eked out a C+ in high school calculus, while Sergiu is a professor of mathematics at Princeton who specializes in the mathematical theory of black holes. He’s been a MacArthur fellow, a Guggenheim fellow and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences
Mathematics allowed a young Sergiu, who came of age in Ceausescu’s Romania, to escape to a world where right and wrong couldn’t be fudged, and, ultimately, to a life of freedom in the United States. Without math, his life quite literally would not have been possible.
In the piece below he explains how activists are destroying his discipline in the name of progress. Worse, they are robbing poor children of the opportunity to raise themselves up by mastering it — with untold effects on all of us.
Math, with its seemingly unbiased tools — 2 + 2 always equals 4 — has presented a problem for an ideological movement that sees any inequality of outcome as evidence of systemic bias. The problem cannot be that some kids are better at math, or that some teachers are better at teaching it. Like so much else, the basic woke argument against math is that it is inherently racist and needs to be made antiracist. That is accomplished by undermining the notion of right and wrong answers, by getting rid of the expectation that students show their work, by referring to mathematical testing tools as racist, and by doing away with accelerated math classes.
(Excerpt) Read more at bariweiss.substack.com ...
The idea that focusing on getting the “right answer” is now considered among some self-described progressives a form of bias or racism is offensive and extraordinarily dangerous. The entire study of mathematics is based on clearly formulated definitions and statements of fact. If this were not so, bridges would collapse, planes would fall from the sky, and bank transactions would be impossible.
Who buys into this crap? Clearly not people who still have at least one neuron still firing.
It’s loony on its face, and a potential starting point for demonstrating to the masses how asinine the left has become on a wide range of matter
Is “White Math” a subset of Critical Race Theory?
Oh, my bad, I didn't realize Caucasians are the only ones who USE math. Asians don't use it either. /sarc
Attention future IRS agents...Black accountants don’t have to be right...They just have to try ..So says Bill Gates and the state of Oregon.....
But, but why is the 9 higher then the 8.?? I mean, it's obvious that the 8 is MUCH better built then the 9.. And what the crooked 3.? Surely you can have some sympathy for the poor little 3...
Math, it's just SO racist.!!
logic is raaacist
We can point out that the Left has become literally Orwellian: “ Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
Well they’re lying subhunan scum. The likelihood of them coming up with something other than scummy lies is zero. (That’s a number, for those in Rio Linda)
White math allows division by zero.
White math matters.
This twisted logic is the reason why we’d be living in muds huts if they were in charge. Intellectual deviants, all.
Fuzzy logic.
I dunno. If there is White Math, then there also must be White Physics. Perhaps some minorities & other woke individuals are exempt from that? Perhaps they should test it and see?
2 crackers plus 2 honkeys will always equal 4 white devils.
Well, they have to find some excuse for the disparity in results on math tests.
The easiest thing to do is revise the way results are measured or abolish the test altogether.
How about educators and politicians doing their jobs to find some ways of bringing students up to a set standard? Much easier to blame racism.
Remember those funny worded ‘3rd grade math in the hood’ ‘tests’ from about 25 to 30 years ago that were going around?
You have to be able to trust to have a functioning society.
If you can not trust 2 + 2 = 4 You can trust nothing.
At that point the center can no longer hold.
It is the same reason they want you to verbally confirm lies.
A boy can be girl.
People cause the world climate to change. The 2020 election was totally honest and fair.
Speaking lies changes society and it changes you.
Once there are enough lies you can no longer function as a person and the society can no longer work at all.
It is evil.
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