Posted on 11/12/2020 4:38:48 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
In September 2020, President Trump banned Critical Race Theory (CRT) from government agencies, coinciding with a social media push for 2+2 to equal 5. Joe Biden claims he will rescind Trump's executive order. But, just what is CRT and what do CRT scholars actually believe, in their own words, in their own studies? This final installment examines CRT research and the influence of the family on math education.
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Kareem Carr, PhD candidate in Biostatistics at Harvard: “Imagine a system where we can only measure things to 1 decimal place. So 2 could mean 1.5 to 2.4 ... 2.4 +2.4 is 4.8. ... In our theoretical system, this would look like 2+2=5. ...” 8:54 PM, July 30, 2020, Twitter.
Brittany Marshall, Rutgers Mathematics PhD student: “Nope the idea of 2 + 2 equals 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing.” 11:27 PM, July 5, 2020, Twitter.
Michael J Barany, a professor at the University of Edinborough: “1+1=2 is a hegemonic discourse, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.” Jan. 28, 2019, Twitter.
1:29 in the video: confirmation bias.
If “racism is real” but “objectivity isn’t” then racism cannot be objectively real.
If the Sumerians/Mesopotamians came up with 2+2=4, were they racists? Were they white?
These people want to run the world. They are quite sure they’ll do a better job than we have done.
2 + 2 = 5 = indoctrination
Basic translation from Socialistic to Classic Liberalese: 2+2= Whatever the narrative says it does.
Proof that Philosophy is a tremendous waste.
Georges Sorel(1847-1922) helped Mussolini get his start. chwartz Gyorgy likely changes his name in the honor of Georges Sorel or George Soros
Which also proves my short thesis: Philosophy only serves to confuse and mislead people away from incontrovertible fact by proclaiming “fact” is in fact a fallacy.
To know that no theory is true would requires knowing all theories. That requires absolute knowledge which no human possesses.
This covers it:
In Robin DiAngelo’s book (who according to her website is a Critical Race and Social Justice Educator) “Is Everyone Really Equal?”, DiAngelo posited:
1.) *”All knowledge* is taught from a particular perspective; the power of dominant knowledge depends in large part on its presentation as neutral and universal (Kincheloe, 2008)...*all knowledge* understood by humans is framed by the ideologies, language, beliefs, and and customs of human societies. *Even the field of science is subjective”* (p. 15).
2.) “Our analysis of social justice is based on a school of thought know as Critical Theory. Critical Theory refers to a body of scholarship that examines how society works, and is a tradition that emerged in the early part of the 20th century from a group of scholars at the *Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany”* (p. 25)
3.) “One of the key contributions of critical theorists concerns the production of knowledge…. These scholars argue that a key element of social injustice involves the claim that particular knowledge is objective, neutral, and universal. *An approach based on critical theory calls into question the idea that objectivity is desirable or even possible.* The term used to describe this way of thinking about knowledge is that knowledge is socially constructed.” (p. 29).
A.) The foundation for Critical Race Theory, Critical Gender Theory, etc, is Critical Theory from the Frankfurt School primarily, but not limited to it. The central idea posited by Critical Theory is that *everything is ideological in nature.* *Even science (math, chemistry, etc), according to CT, has been affected by human interests. To CRT, science is also not independent and objectively unaffected from those interests, and there is *essentially no objective knowledge or truth.* But CT, CRT, CGT proponents don’t possess “all knowledge” to make the claim that all knowledge is ideological and has been affected by human interests; It is a Sweeping Generalization they proffer.
B.) The destroyer of that central tenet is if even science (math, chemistry, etc) is subjective and affected, then Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, Critical Gender Theory, etc, *must surely also be affected, has also been shaped by human interests, and does not stand objectively independent from those interests.*
C.) Thus the conclusions from, and what is posited by, Critical Theory are erroneous. They cannot say that all objectivity or knowledge is equal but that some is more equal than others (or something else along those lines) as even that idea would be subject to the conditions in B and they don’t know “all” or possess “all knowledge” to make those claims.
D.) Thus in order for CT, CRT, CGT, etc, to bolster their contentions in A, they must transcend the confines of A and B and *thus prove that A is true.* Given what they assert, as contained in A (and 1-3), *the burden of proof is upon them.*
To know that no theory is true would require knowing all theories. No human pissesses that absolute knowledge so this posivitism is false.
So then logical positivism would be false as a theory based upon logical positivism.
And then it dawned upon me...Based upon Logical Positivism, the theory of Logical Positivism would be false.
Nuts. Thanks saving
That was the laughable argument against these idiots at the time (1920's and 1930's.) We my joke about it though these idiots have destroyed the world a number of times over with these ridiculous beliefs
The same types of humans then as now: There’s no God, there’s no fixed reality, do whatever you want, do as thou wilt.
These people make Lysenko look sane.
CRT makes perfect sense, if your goal is to destroy civilization.
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