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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: college
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To: C19fan

The NBA and NFL are pure meritocracies; the best are hired and play regardless of background. I don’t hear her bitching about that!


41 posted on 01/08/2018 9:45:32 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: DeFault User
"You expect this sort of crap in sociology, the arts and other "soft" subjects, but MATH--just damn!"

It's NOT math. It's how to, supposedly, TEACH math.

Education majors are the softest of soft degrees. They are the ones whose fontanelle never closed, and they keep pressing on it because they like the pretty colors...

42 posted on 01/08/2018 9:52:41 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: C19fan

I guess the requirement that college professors have an IQ over 37 has been waived.


43 posted on 01/08/2018 9:53:57 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: C19fan

This professor is merely starting that white people are generally more intelligent than certain other people of “colour”.


44 posted on 01/08/2018 9:56:32 AM PST by chief lee runamok
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To: C19fan

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The left lobe of the Bell Curve has been quite vocal these days!
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45 posted on 01/08/2018 9:57:04 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: C19fan

I notice this Everytime I watch basketball and football games. Why do these colleges tolerate such a lack of diversity??


46 posted on 01/08/2018 10:18:08 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ding, ding, ding!
We have a winner.
It is Bigotry to believe that minorities are not capable of competing.


47 posted on 01/08/2018 10:30:05 AM PST by griswold3 (Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.)
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To: C19fan

With a math problem you either get the right answer or you don’t.

How does race inter into that?


48 posted on 01/08/2018 10:36:13 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: simpson96

Does that set off your “gaydar”?


49 posted on 01/08/2018 10:51:55 AM PST by CurlyDave
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To: Army Air Corps

This is the academic equivalent of a ‘Rollex ‘ watch. Scaled counterfeit.


50 posted on 01/08/2018 11:22:19 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: jmcenanly

That should be ‘ a clear counterfeit ‘.


51 posted on 01/08/2018 11:23:32 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: C19fan

That is obvious since non white people have no merit in the estimation of the leftists who push this drivel.


52 posted on 01/08/2018 11:44:00 AM PST by arthurus (SEDYU6U)
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To: C19fan
Former Reagan Economic Adviser: Are Whites Being Setup For Genocide?! (Blake Shelton Sexiest Man)
53 posted on 01/08/2018 12:08:47 PM PST by blam
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To: C19fan

“You’re fired”.


54 posted on 01/08/2018 1:40:21 PM PST by Trillian
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To: C19fan

55 posted on 01/08/2018 5:09:30 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: C19fan

Does this “math professor” understand the term Standard Deviation?


56 posted on 01/08/2018 5:15:55 PM PST by The Toll
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To: C19fan

Why, sure! It is easily possible to land men on the moon without math.


57 posted on 01/08/2018 5:40:12 PM PST by GingisK
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To: C19fan
I went to see The Last Jedi two weeks ago. Bought some popcorn and a drink, the kid behind the counter rang it up and said $4.80. I gave him a five, he punched it into the register and told me I owed him 20 cents.

-PJ

58 posted on 01/08/2018 5:54:58 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: C19fan

The corrupt seeds of the Frankfurt School continue to bear rancid fruit.


59 posted on 01/08/2018 7:00:46 PM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: C19fan

More sour grapes from someone who can’t measure up......


60 posted on 01/08/2018 9:23:21 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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