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Meritocracy is a ‘tool of whiteness,’ claims math professor
Campus Reform ^ | January 8, 2018 | Toni Airaksinen

Posted on 01/08/2018 8:35:18 AM PST by C19fan

A math education professor at Brooklyn College contends in a recent academic article that “meritocracy” in math classes is a “tool of whiteness.”

Laurie Rubel implicates both meritocracy and “color-blindness” as ideological precepts that hold back racial minorities from succeeding in math classes in an article for the peer-reviewed Journal of Mathematics Education.

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To: rjsimmon

LOL, that is one hell of an answer!!!!!!


21 posted on 01/08/2018 8:50:57 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: C19fan
If you are black 2 + 2 = 5 is an acceptable answer.

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

Works for multiculturalism as well.

As Al Gore once said when bloviating about the phrase "E pluribus unum," "Out of one, many."

22 posted on 01/08/2018 8:52:19 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: C19fan

This is actually a WHITE SUPREMACIST argument —

“If the world were a meritocracy, then all the people at the top would be White (and Asian, certainly) and all the people at the bottom would be Black.”

Think about that. People on the Left hold that view and the only way to hold that view is to believe that Whites are inherently superior to Blacks.

It’s an awful way to look at the world. It’s pure racism.


23 posted on 01/08/2018 8:53:49 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: mountn man

Tell that to the Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Indian and Iranian students who are frequently at the top of the international math lists, and who dominate the scores in Canada and US in spite of their relatively small numbers. The success of other racial minorities puts a lie to the claims that “white oppression” is the cause of black and hispanic academic failure. Are asians that genetically wired for math, or is it because most of the kids are in stable families where academic success is encouraged and hard work by the kids is expected. If you’re a 12 year old black kid growing up in south Chicago and your 26 year old mother has no idea where you are at 11 pm on a school night, then it’s not a recipe for success. The problem needs to be identified and dealt with. Permitting sub-standard math results as some sort of affirmative action program will harm all American students.


24 posted on 01/08/2018 8:55:13 AM PST by littleharbour
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To: C19fan
an article for the peer-reviewed Journal of Mathematics Education.

Peer reviewed indicates that there are other "academics" who read and approved this drivel for publication. That is so sad. You expect this sort of crap in sociology, the arts and other "soft" subjects, but MATH--just damn!

25 posted on 01/08/2018 8:55:27 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: C19fan

“Meritocracy is a ‘tool of whiteness,’ claims math professor”

That’s why diversity is such an important factor in hiring. Because the person most highly “qualified” is usually a white guy.


26 posted on 01/08/2018 8:56:02 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: C19fan
And 2 + 2 = 5 has predictable results every time...


27 posted on 01/08/2018 8:58:01 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Army Air Corps
Yeah ..."math education": first thing I noticed. It's a perfesser in a play-pretend program. A few weeks ago, we had similar nonsense about rigorous design and "whiteness" from an "engineering education" perfesser.

A plague o' the lot of 'em.

28 posted on 01/08/2018 8:59:52 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Army Air Corps

Dunno.....she might already of the initials L A M stenciled on her derriere.


29 posted on 01/08/2018 9:00:13 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan

I just marvel at the idea that someone could make that argument, apparently not realizing what it says about himself.


30 posted on 01/08/2018 9:03:58 AM PST by SeeSharp
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To: C19fan
Well, if "meritocracy" is a tool of whiteness,
we all know what "idiocracy" is a tool of then, right?
31 posted on 01/08/2018 9:04:46 AM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: C19fan

Whats his take on AA and EEO?


32 posted on 01/08/2018 9:08:22 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
As Al Gore once said when bloviating about the phrase "E pluribus unum," "Out of one, many."

"Out of one, many" is usually the intended result of a bomb attack. As in, "Rest in pieces."

33 posted on 01/08/2018 9:10:46 AM PST by thulldud ("What makes it news is its dissemination, not its concrete reality." -- Ellul)
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To: C19fan

Peer reviewed? They must be cowards.

Thus goes the integrity of that journal, if they had any to begin with.


34 posted on 01/08/2018 9:14:29 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Bookshelf

The likes of her want us eliminated.


35 posted on 01/08/2018 9:21:03 AM PST by IWontSubmit (2)
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To: C19fan

The meme is, I believe - ‘There are many ways to get the right answer (in math); do the one that enhances your self-esteem.” (math tutor here).


36 posted on 01/08/2018 9:24:23 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: tomkat

How did the professor get tenure?


37 posted on 01/08/2018 9:24:48 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: Army Air Corps

She is yet another justification for the dissolution of Colleges of Education.


38 posted on 01/08/2018 9:26:09 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: circlecity

Precisely.

Incredibly, these “academics” are overwhelmingly bots and lemmings for Marx.

The crazy thing is that Republicans don’t care, and neither do conservatives. We regularly deliver to them our own kids, generation after generation.

We have careers and cars and buying stuff to attend to, don’t cha know.


39 posted on 01/08/2018 9:28:14 AM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public education & academia= the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: C19fan

My Dad worked for a printing company for many years.

My brother ran a Graphics company for many years.

Both of them either prepared , proof read, or printed thousands of textbooks. I do mean THOUSANDS.

I am plenty sure than all those textbooks in each topic were the same. There were NOT different books printed for blacks.

IF you don’t actually attend classes-—don’t actually do the homework-—don’t actually take the tests or pass them, you are doing YOURSELF massive damage.

Don’t expect sympathy from me or others who did all of the above & learned something.


40 posted on 01/08/2018 9:39:42 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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