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White privilege bolstered by teaching math, university professor says
Fox News ^ | 10/24/2017 | Robert Gearty

Posted on 10/24/2017 5:30:28 PM PDT by cq

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Only White people can reason? How racist is that?
1 posted on 10/24/2017 5:30:28 PM PDT by cq
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“School mathematics curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean Theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans," she says

Not to mention all the technology that Asians came up with like printing, silk and several others. Who says you have to be Asian to wear a silk shirt?
2 posted on 10/24/2017 5:34:29 PM PDT by cq (Forget the politics and just play football!)
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So let’s all just be stupid.


3 posted on 10/24/2017 5:34:52 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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Is he insinuating that black people are too stupid to learn? That’s racist!


4 posted on 10/24/2017 5:35:25 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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In other words...keep em stupid and on the plantation


5 posted on 10/24/2017 5:36:20 PM PDT by goodnesswins (There are only TWO Races. The Decent Race, and the Indecent Race. (Frankl))
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These lefty punks are dumbing down American kids.


6 posted on 10/24/2017 5:36:20 PM PDT by Lumper20 (!)
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Math can lead to real privilege, opening access to all sorts of careers, whatever your racial makeup.


7 posted on 10/24/2017 5:38:15 PM PDT by Crucial
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“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as whiteness. 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,” she writes.

Really?
When I was an engineering student a majority of the engineering students were Asian. There were also several African Americans as well.Engineering is heavily dominated by math.
8 posted on 10/24/2017 5:38:37 PM PDT by cq (Forget the politics and just play football!)
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Competition for your satire crown? Hard to do satire with stuff like this out there.


9 posted on 10/24/2017 5:39:10 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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Like I said before, the democrats want to dumb down education so that everyone will be stupid enough to vote for them!


10 posted on 10/24/2017 5:40:11 PM PDT by cq (Forget the politics and just play football!)
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Yeah exactly.


11 posted on 10/24/2017 5:40:25 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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These illiberal “liberals” are pushing stereotypes about black people that are crueler than most of what ordinary white society has EVER come up with about black people.

When are they going to look at themselves in a mirror ?!?

Yes, yes, I know, the bell curve and all. Which biases the distribution, and maybe it really IS true that we have more white mathematicians per capita than black mathematicians.

And exactly what should that have to do with a society of black and white people being able to live harmoniously? Exactly nothing, as far as I can see with my beady little redneck brain. I don’t go out there telling folks that if you ain’t a math major you ain’t s-—. If I did that to the contractors, both black and white, that I meet daily at the KFC where I have been eating (rednecks of all colors know where good food is), they’d pummel me into the ground! Well at least, with a look. What we don’t get in mathematicians we get in carpenters, plumbers, etc. All generally honest, stouthearted guys.


12 posted on 10/24/2017 5:40:48 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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a “math education professor”. So not a “math professor” Yep, that would explain her stoopidity index going off the chart.


13 posted on 10/24/2017 5:43:02 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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calculus.


14 posted on 10/24/2017 5:44:30 PM PDT by Lumper20 (!)
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Oh she may know tensor calculus out the yin yang. That’s not the issue.

The issue is these stupid generalizations.

A society needs people of various skills and experiences. And being in a rarefied intellectual echelon doesn’t make a body all-wise. I remember the comment made by Dr. Louis Pasteur that he wished he had as much faith as a lowly Breton woman. And yet he still was a vessel of God’s blessings to the world.

Maybe the bifecta would be to be, like me, a high tech redneck. I can go low and I can go high and carry the blessing of the Lord either way. But that’s rare. And it also tends to get you special attention from Satan... I can tell about it.


15 posted on 10/24/2017 5:47:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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2+2=you’re racist.

Time to shut these socialists and perpetual victims down permanently.


16 posted on 10/24/2017 5:50:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Phoney elitists wouldn’t get nearly so far if the REAL elite and the REAL rednecks would both unite in razzberries towards them.


17 posted on 10/24/2017 5:51:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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Algebra and Math came from the Mediterranean region. We are using math developed over 5000 years by people of many colors and cultures. So that is how absurd this statement is, that only white privileged people can do math.....


18 posted on 10/24/2017 5:55:31 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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Just goes to show you, a person can be smart in math and dumb as a post in other areas.


19 posted on 10/24/2017 5:57:09 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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Differential Equations, Fourier Analysis, Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena, statics, statistics and so on and so on


20 posted on 10/24/2017 5:58:14 PM PDT by cq (Forget the politics and just play football!)
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