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Mockery Ensues After USA Today Publishes Ludicrous Article Asking ‘Is Math Racist?’
Legal Insurrection ^ | Friday, December 10, 2021

Posted on 12/10/2021 1:09:30 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 12/10/2021 1:09:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
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We already know what happens when feminism engineering builds bridges (Miami Footbridge Collapse). I can’t wait to see what wonders will come from anti-racist math.
Fortunately, I’ll probably be dead before the little s**ts try to build airplanes or rockets.
I remember when the future was going to be a great place.


2 posted on 12/10/2021 1:13:50 PM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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A libtard trying to be deep. Hahaha


3 posted on 12/10/2021 1:14:49 PM PST by trailboss800
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To: nickcarraway

Myself, I think pro basketball is racist.


4 posted on 12/10/2021 1:15:42 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine (FJB/LGB (Let's Go, Brandon!))
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To: nickcarraway

When the teacher worked the problem with white chalk on a blackboard it was?


5 posted on 12/10/2021 1:18:05 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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Math is hard- never said by an Asian student


6 posted on 12/10/2021 1:21:26 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: nickcarraway
Leftists keep refusing to recognize The Bell Curve.
7 posted on 12/10/2021 1:23:12 PM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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Did a Brit write this? (Maths)
8 posted on 12/10/2021 1:23:59 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: nickcarraway

I think reading may be racist too so I am gonna skip this in protest.


9 posted on 12/10/2021 1:28:34 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: Little Ray

I did not know that about the bridge — what happened, PC promotion of underqualified engineers? (likely)

Here, btw, for what seems to be a decent analysis of the direct causes of the collapse: https://www.bradyheywood.com.au/miami-bridge-failure-part-1-the-collapse/


10 posted on 12/10/2021 1:29:09 PM PST by nicollo
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To: nickcarraway

USA Today is a sorry excuse for a newspaper. It is written for illiterate morons. It is obsessed with global “warming.” It is not worth the paper its printed on.


11 posted on 12/10/2021 1:32:22 PM PST by I want the USA back (It’s not about the virus. It’s about massive mind and thought control.)
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Hey, I have worked with some very adequate women engineers in the past.


12 posted on 12/10/2021 1:33:56 PM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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The only people who are racist are the ones that don’t want to hold black people and other “minorities” to the same standards as everyone else.


13 posted on 12/10/2021 1:37:05 PM PST by Trillian
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I can’t keep track of what is racist.
Most of the mathematical “breakthroughs” were by “people of color.”
The “we wuz kangz” Afrocentrists claim Black Africans invented all math and technology.

I ask this is the “math is racist.” Do you want to ride on an airplane built using racist math and engineering, or woke anti-racist math and engineering?


14 posted on 12/10/2021 1:38:50 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Little Ray

As a woman who actually likes math and science, I am disgusted by the idea of letting someone skate by on lowered standards because of their gender. Whoever made that decision should have been charged as an accomplice in the deaths caused by that bridge collapse.


15 posted on 12/10/2021 1:40:45 PM PST by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: Trillian

The soft bigotry of low expectations.


16 posted on 12/10/2021 1:42:56 PM PST by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?"
- _1984_

Interestingly, the novel contains another fictional nonfiction work, as a "conservative" viewpoint at odds with the novel's dominant "progressive" government, which notes:
"In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions."
Ultimately the story reveals that Goldstein's "THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM" is actually a work created by the Party as a honeypot to attract and destroy objective thinkers, showing the collective's leaders are fully aware of the absurdity of "2+2=5", and choose to push it anyway for imperative of power over survival.

We're quick to quote _1984_, but few see how deep the work really is.

17 posted on 12/10/2021 1:45:35 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Statistics don't matter when they happen to you.)
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To: seowulf
Hey, I have worked with some very adequate women engineers in the past.

All of whom were taught using patriarchic engineering and racist math, no doubt.
18 posted on 12/10/2021 1:46:02 PM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: seowulf

The tyranny of the anecdote. Hey, I know some awesome black folk.


19 posted on 12/10/2021 1:47:44 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: Organic Panic

I thought that math originated in Babylon, in Iraq, Egypt and other Arab nations.

Are Arabs part of white supremacy now?


20 posted on 12/10/2021 1:48:06 PM PST by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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