Posted on 02/14/2022 12:24:07 PM PST by karpov
The notion of antiracism now dominates at all levels of education, from infant to university. In a previous piece, I described how the 2017 President of American Educational Research Association (AERA) gave speeches to teachers instructing them that teaching math to kids poses a racist threat, playing a set of video clips to underline her theme that no matter what improvements in rigor, classroom debate, etc. may come about “We are still at incredibly high risk for the perpetuation of racism and marginalization as it seeps into our classrooms.” Many will be surprised to learn that math education has anything to do with racism.
North Carolina is not immune to this racialized ideology. A couple of recent articles from the respected UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) advocate an “antiracism lens” and the abandonment of the “race-neutral” “classical scientific method.”
But first, some context: Where does “antiracism” come from? And how has it affected social science?
Ibram X. Kendi, the 39-year old African-American Director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University has become famous via his best-selling book How to be an Antiracist. It is an eloquent, powerful, and deeply personal book. Too personal—he and his wife were both recovering from cancer during this time—and perhaps too self-involved to be an objective account of the race issue (“I had trouble separating [my wife’s] cancer from the racism I studied,” he writes). The book makes claims, echoed by the FPG articles, that are both scientifically false and morally questionable.
Kendi’s mantra is that “a racist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial inequity between racial groups.” Hence, Kendi deems a procedure like IQ testing racist just because it produces unequal results.
(Excerpt) Read more at jamesgmartin.center ...
‘credo quia absursum...’
credit quod stultus est...
Kendi, I mean...
‘credit quod stultus est...’
s/b credit quod quia stultus est
interdum etiam ego sum stultus...
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Kendi is a racist.
So is DiAngelo.
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