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Professor Claims Math, Algebra And Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’
The Daily Caller ^ | 10/23/2017 | Ian Miles Cheong

Posted on 10/24/2017 9:14:39 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

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To: 11th_VA
Work Ethic + Modest Living = White Privilege

A dad.

41 posted on 10/24/2017 9:38:38 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

What does that make hsr, if she is s math professor?


42 posted on 10/24/2017 9:38:43 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Mr. Mojo

So does boxing, basketball and football then.


43 posted on 10/24/2017 9:38:47 AM PDT by Fhios (Down with your fascism, up with our fascism.)
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was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans.”

Maybe its because it was developed by them for the most part.

Just offering Occam’s razor here...oops there goes that whiteness thingie again...

lawdy...give this sh@t a rest


44 posted on 10/24/2017 9:39:29 AM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Rochelle Gutierrez a BLOOMING A**!


45 posted on 10/24/2017 9:39:44 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: mrsmith

Actually, everything I see these days is STEM.

Science
Technology
Engineering
Math

Like stem cells, of course.


46 posted on 10/24/2017 9:39:47 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Mr. Mojo

My rascally algebra, geometry, and calculus teachers intentionally hid the Mhlanga-Nyahuye Theorem, the Dabengwa Postulate, the Muchinguri Corrollary, the Chikwinya Hypothesis, the Nhamoinesu Equation, the Nhamoinesu Number, and the Matongo Constant from us. Shame on them for keeping African brilliance and invention from us. It was a PLOT, I tell you!


47 posted on 10/24/2017 9:42:17 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Sooth2222

It really is an excellent math test.


48 posted on 10/24/2017 9:42:21 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: treetopsandroofs

I applaud this, but I am talking about contributors on the level of Fourier, Lagrange, Poisson, etc.

I thought Cardano was one until I looked him up and saw he was Italian.


49 posted on 10/24/2017 9:43:17 AM PDT by Reily
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A University of Illinois basketball coach believes that shooting and dribbling perpetuate “black privilege” because (edited).

But that isn’t the coach’s only complaint. Xhe also believes that evaluations for basketball proficiency perpetuates discrimination against non-minority students, if they do worse than their black counterparts.

The coach argues in a newly published sports magazine that they must be aware of the identity politics surrounding the subject of basketball.

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

Xhe argues that subjects like passing and ball-handling, which relate to basketball, also perpetuate racism and black privilege.

Xhe claims that the importance of basketball skills in the real world also places what xhe calls an “unearned privilege” for those who are good at it. Because most NBA players in the United States are black, black people stand to benefit from their grasp of the subject disproportionate to members of other races.

“Are we really that smart just because we do basketball?” she asks, raising the question as to why basketball coaches get more salary than “social studies or English” professors.

“If one is not viewed as athletic, there will always be a sense of inferiority that can be summoned,” xhe says, claiming that non-minorities “have experienced microaggressions from participating in gym… [where people are] judged by whether they can put a ball in a net.”

To resolve the athleticism gap, xhe calls on math professors to develop a sense of “political covfefe,” a Swahili term for “I won, get over it.”

xhe concludes xher argument with the claim that all athleticism is “relational,” or is, in other words, relative. “Things cannot be done objectively; they must be done subjectively.”


50 posted on 10/24/2017 9:44:01 AM PDT by youthphil
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“It was a PLOT, I tell you!”

They worked in concert with the muslim founders of the very fabric of America.


51 posted on 10/24/2017 9:44:40 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Borges

ITs like every islamic invention they lay claim to... its stolen.

The oldest algebraic expressions come from Sumerian clay tablets...The muslims springboard started with Diophantus and them capturing one of his 5 volumes of arithmetic and then translating it.

Islam is truly the pirates code.


52 posted on 10/24/2017 9:45:33 AM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Mr. Mojo

This is ivory tower rhetorical sophistry.
Rhetoric can be applied to any subject but has no subject matter of its own.
Rhetoric contains in itself no moral position other than that conclusions established by reasoning from principles approximating truth are superior to those produced by poor reasoning disguised by the overuse of emotions; one conclusion is in principle as good as another.

And: “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

Irony. This SJW professor apparently did not receive a liberal arts education.


53 posted on 10/24/2017 9:47:46 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: youthphil

Did you redo it? If so, well done!

“...develop a sense of “political covfefe,” a Swahili term for “I won, get over it.”” LOLOL


54 posted on 10/24/2017 9:48:35 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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haha, Is he saying that Intelligence is white privilege? hahah


55 posted on 10/24/2017 9:48:46 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To be racially sensitive, black students should be taught mathematics in a relatable way. For instance, if Tyrone needs to brick 50 Benjamin’s before the club opens in 4 hours, how much heroin does he need to sell per hour if he cuts it 30% with 10 ounces of milk powder. Or, if a pimps ho is on 12th street then walks west to 5th for a dumpster trick at 4 mph, how long will it take for the bitch to start earnin’?


56 posted on 10/24/2017 9:50:30 AM PDT by Rebelrage ("To crush your enemies -- See them driven, and to hear the lamentation of their women)
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Believe me, they are trying hard to dumb down math. I took a Math for Teachers class that made my brain spin - AND the guy with the PhD in Math was up in arms. A ‘drama major’ taught it - and it included ‘there are many ways to.’

This was 10 years ago, mind you (but California). It has only degenerated. I tutor middle school and teach kids ‘the way math is supposed to be (ie the way we were taught).’ Parents should all do that with their kids.


57 posted on 10/24/2017 9:50:46 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: youthphil

At first I though you were referring to the Asian scientist Xhe.

Asians named Xhe will have a rough time.

Possessives xher and xhis are still sexist.

Also, it was hard to read.


58 posted on 10/24/2017 9:50:46 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: himno hero

The prof is an inferiorist who will never be supreme


59 posted on 10/24/2017 9:51:54 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Fhios

“So does boxing, basketball and football then.”

Not curling, though.

(which is among the stupidest “sports” I’ve seen)


60 posted on 10/24/2017 9:52:24 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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