Posted on 08/04/2019 8:18:32 AM PDT by Rusty0604
A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor who argues for a “movement against objects, truths, and knowledge” will be leading a confab at Minnesota’s Carleton College this October.
Carleton’s convocation series, described as “a shared campus experience that brings students, faculty, and staff together for […] a lecture or presentation from specialists in a variety of disciplines,” have “a rich history” dating back to the early 1940s
The relationship between humans, mathematics, and the planet has been one steeped too long in domination and destruction […] Drawing upon Indigenous worldviews to reconceptualize what mathematics is and how it is practiced, I argue for a movement against objects, truths, and knowledge towards a way of being in the world that is guided by first principles–mathematx.
For Professor Gutiérrez, math should be a “moral,” rather than a “rational,” issue.
According to her convocation description, Gutiérrez “demonstrates how mathematics perpetuates white privilege, and how evaluations of math skills can perpetuate discrimination against minorities”:
The way our economy places a premium on mathematics skills also gives a form of unearned privilege for math professors, who are disproportionately white. The solution, Gutiérrez contends, goes beyond closing the achievement gap or recruiting more diverse students into the mathematical sciences. Mathematics teachers need to be prepared with much more than just content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, or knowledge of diverse students if they are going to be successful. They must become more aware of the politics that mathematics brings to society
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
This is what our society is coming down to. Don't get math? That's OK, there are many other worthy occupations you can do. But no, let's go after those that, fortunately for society, do get math.
She teaches math “eddikashun”. A degree in eddikashun is worth as much as a twenty year old lottery ticket. Even less. Any STEM 1st year calculus class would probably give the poor creature heart failure. And a “Calculus on Manifolds” course would eject her from the multiverse.
Note to politicians, journalists, and ISIS t*rds: In this case, ‘manifolds’ does not refer to car exhaust tubing.
Go to “thecollegefix” article, this person does NOT have an actual degree in mathematics! She is a MathEd & Latino Studies professor. Her contact with real Math (Calculus, Linear & Abstract Algebra, Differential Equations, etc.) probably comes from walking past the door where it was being taught!
I don’t like people in a certain club.
But I earn the qualifications to be in the club (sort of), and the open-minded members of the club invite me to join.
Instead of saying “I don’t want to be in your club because I don’t like you,” I go ahead and join the club, in order to destroy it.
An honorable person would say “Thanks for inviting me, but I’m not going to join your club because I have deep philosophical differences with how the people in your club see the world.”
But I’m not honorable, nor am I honest. I can’t create the thing I’ve been invited to be a part of; I can’t even add anything meaningful to it. But I can be remembered for destroying it.
If only she had been my teacher in high school, as I was failing math!
“Sir_Ed, your answer is wrong, x=11!”
“But teacher, Math is racist, I feel I should be given an A!”
“Well said, young man...here’s an A!”
Liberals rely on ignorance and incompetence, so they naturally rebel against anything requiring mental acuity.
Yes, but my point is, she’s welcomed to speak about the racism of math and tell young people we don’t need it. As if she’s some authority.
Good analogy.
This is a classic example of Leftism.
Leftism denounces reality. They protest reality.
They claim reality *must* conform to their vision.
It is, literally, insanity. X must be Y, because I want it to be so!
This is not a Math Prof.
unearned privilege for math professors, who are disproportionately white.
Just like denial of biological genders. And climate change.
One gun + One shooter = an innnocent death
or one good guy + one shooter = dead murderer
Simple math!
Against truth and knowledge? That’s the (so far) unacknowledged platform of the Democrat Party.
And they wonder wby young people are going postal...
Cant make this stuff up.
What a pile of crap. So now the morons want to teach that math is situational and political.
Ha ha ha. What an idiot, and the libs and snowflakes go for it.
The west is done. All that is left is for the illegals and Muslims to take over and kill the rest of us.
She’s just another sp## that should shut up.
Universities and white sucker kids and their parents who pay give these people money and a pulpit.
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