Posted on 05/16/2021 5:47:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Laurie Rubel, a professor of math education at New York’s Brooklyn College, does not appear to be fond of the discipline she teaches. In fact, she apparently believes math is inherently racist. She recently tweeted, “the idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a MYTH.” In a separate tweet she noted that math “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy” after stating, albeit incoherently, “along with the ‘of course math is neutral because 2 + 2 = 4 trope’ are the related (and creepy) ‘math is pure’ and ‘protect math.’”
Appearing drunk on her own peerless wokeness, she added, “I’d rather think on nurturing people & protecting the planet (with math in service of them goals).” Well, maybe just drunk.
What an amazing social justice warrior! What a flawless person! She’d rather “think on” nurturing people! And protecting the planet! Not that she’d actually do anything in furtherance of her stated goals. It is enough that she has stated them. And she wants to take that racist (and no doubt misogynistic, homophobic, and Islamophobic) math and use it “in service of them goals.” It’s a good thing she isn’t an English teacher. Though, to be fair, Ms. Rubel may believe English is at least as racist as math is. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would be a better instructor. Or Barney Rubble.
Seemingly every week another professor claims math, data, facts, good behavior, competence, proper hygiene, discipline, a work ethic, speaking ability, or another such basic building block of a successful society is prima facie evidence of the white supremacist patriarchy’s evil and unwarranted hold on American society. (How racist is that?) Yet, Rubel’s assertion that 2+2=4 is a “trope” still boggles the mind.
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College professor. Got the job because of her skin color. No other qualification needed to be a college professor. At some schools.
“Professor of math education”.
If it has the word “education” in it, the possessor is - quite simply - a dumbass.
Period
Let’s see this simpleton try to get a REAL mathematics degree.
And yes, there are many blacks who do have real math degrees, and they will properly regard this clown as yes, a dumbass.
This is not meant to demean any of the wonderful math teachers out there. I had some - which is what led me into my career.
Taxpayer supported, tenured liberals erode the culture. Tenure at taxpayer supported institutions must be abolished. Tenure makes this nonsense possible. A rational institution would dismiss this lunatic “math professor”.
and the funniest part about it all, is they have no idea nor care how they got that job.
(The first non-white astrophysicist that popped into my head). Which is weird, because I never considered his ethnicity until just now.
She needs to spend about a year in Zimbabwe.
Whatever distance there is between her and the professionals who actually use math as part of their actual work, it, that distance, is far too close. She refers to 'climate change' but her number 'skills' would render results irreproducible.
To quote that famous philosopher, B.Bunny; "What a Maroon"!
The Ecruvians will destroy our society.
> Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University - 2002 (Mathematics Education)
Given the choice, I’d take the dollar value in toilet paper rather than a modern Ph.D. At least the toilet paper is useful.
Three cheers for white supremacy, then. It's good to be white. We stand on the shoulders of giants.
These people are insane or evil.
But when a professor of mathematics education does it, then it's scholarship:Ghetto Math Test -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inner City High School Math Proficiency Exam NAME______________________________________________ ___ GANG/CREW NAME______________ Crib_________________ 1. Ramone has an AK-47 with a 30 round clip. He usually misses 6 out of every 10 shots and he uses 13 rounds per drive-by shooting. How many drive-by shootings can Ramone attempt before he has to reload? ________ 2. Otis has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an 8 ball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, What is the street value of the rest of his hold? _________ 3. DeShawn pimps 3 ho's. If the price is $85 per trick. How many tricks per day must each ho turn to support DeShawn's $800 per day crack habit?
Rubel, L., Lim, V., Hall-Wieckert, M., & Katz, S. (2016). Cash across the city: Participatory mapping and teaching for spatial justice. Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research 12, 4-14. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016Rubel, L., Lim, V., Hall-Wieckert, M., & Sullivan, M. (2016). Teaching mathematics for spatial justice: An investigation of the lottery. Cognition & Instruction 34(1), 1-26. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Lim, V., E. Deahl, L. Rubel and S. Williams. (2015). Local Lotto: Mathematics and mobile technologies to study the lottery. In D. Polly (Eds.) Cases on Technology and Common Core Mathematics Standards (pp. 43-67). Hershey, Pa.: IGI Global. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2015
Rubel, L. and V. Lim. (2015). Pawnshops to teach percents and percents to teach pawnshops. In T. Bartell & K. Bieda (Eds.) Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 534-541). East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
I think question that came up during the fuzzy math craze should always be asked of these fools:
Can we use your type of math to figure your paycheck and taxes?
They should try reaching the moon or building a bridge that doesn’t collapse with their non-racist version of mathematics. See how that works out.
Brainwashed.
My father and his friends started a hunting camp may decades ago. When the boys were old enough, they brought us to camp.
This camp has been together for over 52 years, same spot, same camp.
We have a word that we kinda made up to describe the idiots among us. This word applies here.
Stupidfrigginjackass....
Everybody knows that 2+2 rally equals 4 but everybody also knows that it is politically incorrect to oppose the politically correct party line and that opposition to the PC party line brings punishment and ritual shaming and ridicule by the rest of society who are too intimidated or brainwashed to publicly acknowledge the false reality.
In Marxism, failure is excused or even applauded if it was done to advance the noble goals and issues of the revolution.
In Marxism, The Issues are never the issue, the issue is always The Revolution. Issue are simply the weapons used to further the revolution
We live in revolutionary times and those who have not been interested in The Revolution are about to discover that The Revolution has been very interested in them and that The Great Reset is going to be a bitch
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