Professor Claims Math, Algebra And Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’

The Daily Caller ^ | 10/23/2017 | Ian Miles Cheong

[Ohioan]

You make a common sense point, but the Professor is compulsion--not reason--driven.

Compassion Or Compulsion?

[Myrddin]

My apolgies to all the excellent math teachers (not educators) out there. Wish there were more of you.

Those who can...do. Those who can't...teach. Those who can't teach...write.

I enjoy hardware and software engineering. I enjoyed teaching, but the "doing" role pays better. I'll continue that as long as I can tolerate the 50 to 70 hour weeks. My students from 1980 to 1983 landed good jobs. Some of them showed up at my computer center as techs for IBM and DEC.

[The people have spoken]

0.002-1+1=0.002 dollars, or two tenths of a cent.

[grania]

Re: Hidden Figures. It tells it all that black empowerment types haven’t embraced the story of these three wonderful, accomplished women. Is it because they accomplished what they did by reaching their full potential, and not making excuses and backing down when things didn’t go 100% their way?

[miniTAX]

Aren’t Asians “minorities” ?
They have no problem with maths. On the contrary, they surpopulate STEMs in universities and business, even more had they not been constrained by affirmative action favoring blacks and hispanics.
Asians are such a thorn in the foot of the race baiters’ narrative.

[EVO X]

The board of regents that employ her should all be prosecuted for dereliction of duty.

At the U of I it is called the Board of Trustees. If the gal has tenure, there probably isn't much they can do. If she doesn't have tenure there probably isn't much the BOT can do either. Obtaining tenure is mostly left to the professors peers. Sounds like this gal's theories would work quite well at North Carolina and the NCAA would concur..

[FrdmLvr]

Unfortunately, in many schools, when black kids do well, their peers put them down for being too white.
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I used to hear it frequently in my classroom until I started writing them up for saying it.

[Charles Martel]

“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness,” she argues with complete sincerity, according to Campus Reform. “Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White.”

Said no Asian, ever.

[ronnie raygun]

The useful idiots that help the despots into power will no longer be useful to the cause and be the first to go

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Mr. Mojo.

• White privilege bolstered by teaching math, university professor says
• White privilege bolstered by teaching math, university professor says
• White privilege bolstered by teaching math, university professor says

[Berosus]

So why is it that so many Indians (Asian, not American) are good at math? It’s a rare college these days that doesn’t have an Indian professor in mathematics or computer science?

[SunkenCiv]

It's not just math, they're generally better in academic subjects across the board, which is why, in California, Latino politicians try to circumvent the state constitution and set up racial quotas, quite illegally.

[AdmSmith]

Perhaps she is a true believer in this:

Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity

Alan D. Sokal
Department of Physics

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair