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This is truly dangerous.

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.

1 posted on 03/01/2021 7:01:47 PM PST by Rummyfan
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...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.

Who buys into this crap? Clearly not people who still have at least one neuron still firing.

2 posted on 03/01/2021 7:05:21 PM PST by econjack
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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


3 posted on 03/01/2021 7:05:58 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Is counting white?

5 posted on 03/01/2021 7:14:14 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC )
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Most math is black - in No. 2 pencil or black text in white spreadsheet cells. Maybe they're referring to white beads in an abacus.

Oh, my bad, I didn't realize Caucasians are the only ones who USE math. Asians don't use it either. /sarc

6 posted on 03/01/2021 7:15:26 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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"Like so much else, the basic woke argument against math is that it is inherently racist and needs to be made antiracist."

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.!!

8 posted on 03/01/2021 7:18:13 PM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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logic is raaacist


9 posted on 03/01/2021 7:22:22 PM PST by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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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)


11 posted on 03/01/2021 7:24:40 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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White math allows division by zero.


12 posted on 03/01/2021 7:26:29 PM PST by 353FMG
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This twisted logic is the reason why we’d be living in muds huts if they were in charge. Intellectual deviants, all.


14 posted on 03/01/2021 7:28:44 PM PST by Viking2002 (The revolution won't need to be televised. It'll be on your doorstep.)
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Fuzzy logic.


15 posted on 03/01/2021 7:46:43 PM PST by NWFree (Socialism is legalized plunder)
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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?


16 posted on 03/01/2021 7:51:23 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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2 crackers plus 2 honkeys will always equal 4 white devils.


17 posted on 03/01/2021 7:58:39 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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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.


18 posted on 03/01/2021 8:05:49 PM PST by RAldrich
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Remember those funny worded ‘3rd grade math in the hood’ ‘tests’ from about 25 to 30 years ago that were going around?


19 posted on 03/01/2021 8:05:51 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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All of this white bashing is growing out of the black inferiority complex.


28 posted on 03/02/2021 1:20:54 AM PST by FrdmLvr
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Making excuses for stupid people.

To many stupid people on TV and elected to public office.

Excuses have to be made for their obvious stupidity.

Quit participating in this stupidity.

29 posted on 03/02/2021 4:23:44 AM PST by blam
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IF even the poorest of us in the USA cannot count correct change when making a monetary transaction, they are going to forever be cheated out of a decent life.

WE do not need any more dependents who are illiterate.

The problem of poor education isn’t necessarily new—the ATTACK of education in MATH is.


32 posted on 03/02/2021 8:03:14 AM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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I wonder how many freepers have actually studied mathematics..beyond just an entry level perusal.

I’d wager not over 1-2%...

Most folks studied rudimentary arithmetic not mathematics

Real math is hard......very hard

I was unable to klep 1-200 level college math and had to take 3 hours of finite mathematics 101 which was high school algebra on steroids and calculus 102

It was a struggle on par with statistics or spanish lit 400 level where English is forbidden and you read Cervantes or Marquez all semester And must be able every class to discuss it like you are fluent and have read the 100 pages per class or organic chemistry or applied Physics where you learn things like Strange or Chaotic Attractors

Some folks found political theory hard ....too abstract ....any one here can tell how I ramble that shit was a snap..lol

Socrates to Hobbes To Hayek and A little Zeno and Anaximander to Fromm and Camus ....I’m in

Blue book was my friend

I did the entire four years stoned..mostly ...it can be done....After first two years I quit going to class high....classes were smaller and intimate and folks could tell or smell

It was the 70s....I was destined for law school....or so I though..life has doors that open you least expect


38 posted on 03/02/2021 9:44:53 PM PST by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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