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Math Is racist and 2+2 = 4 is just a ‘trope’
American Thinker ^ | Eric Utter

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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KEYWORDS: brooklyncollege; laurierubel; looney; math; mathematics; newyork; newyorkcity; wboopi
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To: RoosterRedux

Thankfully we still have IMMIGRATION as the days of Americans being educated are pretty much over.


21 posted on 05/16/2021 6:24:00 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Let’s assume that she (or should I say ‘they’) has had enough education to count to 5. I tell her “ I’m going to give you 2 hundred dollar bills. As I dig them out of my wallet, I say, “I think I’ll give you two more. How many would that be?”

If her answer is “5, because I’m black, but it would be one if I were white.”, that would not only make her not only wrong on both counts, but also it would make her a flaming racist.

I really can’t tell if she’s been educated enough to count to five, but I sure can tell that she’s a flaming racist.


22 posted on 05/16/2021 6:24:29 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: RoosterRedux

One word: Patty Hearst. This woman has been locked in a closet and periodically tortured and raped until her mind broke. See Stockholm Syndrome.

ps

Why are all communist fanatical women so plain? Coincidence?


23 posted on 05/16/2021 6:28:33 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: RoosterRedux
“I’d rather think on nurturing people & protecting the planet..."

It always boils down to: "You get free stuff! Just give me and mine power over you - you don't need it, anyway."

24 posted on 05/16/2021 6:29:20 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: ClearCase_guy

Because 2 + 2 = 4 is a philosophical introduction to objective truth, which logically takes us up the path to a righteous God. We can’t have that.


25 posted on 05/16/2021 6:36:33 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: RoosterRedux

Is it justifying the failure of POC in math? Minimizing the success of Asians in math?

Does it mean that POC can write 2 + 2 = 5 on a math test and pass, and graduate, and go on to be engineers who design bridges that collapse and then blame Whitey for it?


26 posted on 05/16/2021 6:40:52 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Non-binary transnormativity is a construct of intersectionality. Leftist gobbledegook stinks.)
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To: Da Coyote

Every time I see or hear one of these mendacious reprobates puking up their TROPE that Math Is RACIST I immediately think of that old lightning rod Barbie Doll that was introduced years ago that had a pull string when pulled would cause the doll to repeat “Math is Hard.”

How parents allow such craziness to manifest itself in school districts is beyond belief. Kids only get one chance at a decent education, public schools have become super cesspools in the past 60 years. I cannot understand why there hasn’t been any attempts at class action suits against the NEA and all the other overlord bureaucracies that are part and parcel the cause of the lousy education.


27 posted on 05/16/2021 6:49:13 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: RoosterRedux
for lefturd loons who worship Plato:

2 + 2 = 4 on the perfect Platonic ideal realm of true reality, but can equal 5 in the imperfect earthly realm of reality, if that's what they want it to be.

28 posted on 05/16/2021 6:51:08 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: RoosterRedux
Looks like Cameron Frye from Ferris Bueller.
29 posted on 05/16/2021 7:16:16 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: RoosterRedux
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30 posted on 05/16/2021 7:17:49 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: RoosterRedux

Wonder if she would take prescription pills or allow a shot to be given her with the dosage given by a “WOKE” physician.

“A little bit of this, a little bit of that and you will be OK!”

I can see the Liability Insurance rates skyrocketing.


31 posted on 05/16/2021 7:20:56 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: Cecily

They could build a bridge or reach the moon if only racists would “give” them an engineering degree.


32 posted on 05/16/2021 7:38:28 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: RoosterRedux

Anything hard to do is out: math, science, jobs, supporting yourself and your families, raising you own children, becoming a citizen-forget it!
The current crop is largely worthless.


33 posted on 05/16/2021 8:05:53 AM PDT by doc maverick
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To: RoosterRedux

Bookmark


34 posted on 05/16/2021 8:06:16 AM PDT by aquila48 (o not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

She is white, Jewish, and formerly taught in Israel.

And is a flaming Marxist.


35 posted on 05/16/2021 8:07:42 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: RoosterRedux

Don’t let any of these woke types near an engineering job


36 posted on 05/16/2021 8:28:28 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: RoosterRedux

We use an Arabic mubering system. Not Roman numerals


37 posted on 05/16/2021 8:32:25 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: RoosterRedux

When I was having a ct scan recently I thought about all the people in the hospital who have technical training and medical degrees, and the people who invented and improved upon highly specialized machines and have to know science, technology and mathematics-——but I see so many dingbats and morons who support Antifa and BLM and who attack their betters and are lazy anti-American types, where are the young ones going to come from? The Nick Sandmann type young people.


38 posted on 05/16/2021 8:51:33 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: RoosterRedux

Data, facts, good behavior, competence, proper hygiene, discipline, a work ethic, speaking ability.

Little of that left in so much of the slacker society around today.


39 posted on 05/16/2021 10:01:16 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Brainwashed.

Are you saying someone gave her an enema?

40 posted on 05/16/2021 10:21:20 AM PDT by dearolddad
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