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BLM Teacher Says 2+2 Only = 4 Because of “Western Imperialism”
Summit News ^ | 7/7/20

Posted on 07/07/2020 8:16:29 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

A Black Lives Matter-supporting teacher took to Twitter to assert that 2+2 only = 4 because of “western imperialism.”

Yes, really.

Brittany Marshall’s tweet went viral after she claimed during the course of a discussion about racism, “Nope the idea of 2 + 2 equaling 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing.”

Marshall, who includes her pronouns in her bio, lists her occupation as “teacher, scholar, social justice change agent” and apparently is studying for a PhD at Rutgers.

Her bizarre statement is yet another example of Intersectionality, the pseudo-intellectual garbage feminist notion taught in all major universities that racism and sexism are prevalent throughout all areas of society and are intertwined.

In this case, Marshall appears to be arguing that maths itself is racist, an argument that has been made by numerous social justice warriors down the years, some of whom question why ‘Western Math’ is in common use and not other methods such as the way Aborigines count (maybe because we’re western and not Aborigine).

The notion that 2+2 might not = 4 is of course lifted from George Orwell’s 1984, when the one party state was able to torture dissidents into believing it could equal 5. Respondents to the tweet expressed their varied opinions.

“Unfortunately it’s nothing new,” remarked one. “There are videos circulating showing black students promoting to stop science because it represents white supremacy. They would prefer magic and voodoo.”

“Scary thing is, this person is a teacher probably preaching the same nonsense to our children,” said another.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bellcurve; brittanymarshall; math; notaphd; phd; racenorming; rutgers
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To: Altura Ct.

As anyone who has taken Anthropolgy 101, for many primitive cultures, 2+2= “many”.


41 posted on 07/07/2020 8:53:28 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Altura Ct.

Never, ever put somebody like this in charge of anything important.

And NEVER accept a doctor of color.


42 posted on 07/07/2020 8:55:24 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Altura Ct.
Don't drive under a bridge designed and built by postmodernists.
43 posted on 07/07/2020 8:57:54 AM PDT by deadrock (<img src="WIDTH420WIDTH420.jpeg" width="420">)
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To: KC_Lion
Would someone more intelligent to me please explain to this troglodyte how Algebra was heavily influence by Indian and Islamic Scholars in the Middle Ages? Well, they are "White" too I guess so their stupid point still stands.

Reminds me of how the mermaid always stayed underwater because she never got her algebra, but I digress.

44 posted on 07/07/2020 8:59:04 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

(slide-whistle)


45 posted on 07/07/2020 9:01:10 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Reily

Doesn’t work well in bookkeeping, either.


46 posted on 07/07/2020 9:02:51 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Altura Ct.

Orwell’s 1984 is the new “education” training manual. :-(


47 posted on 07/07/2020 9:04:41 AM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: VanShuyten
As anyone who has taken Anthropolgy 101, for many primitive cultures, 2+2= “many”.

To be fair, I seem to remember that most early cultures with a language had words for up to the number 20 (meaning they could count on their fingers and toes), and then had a word meaning 'a bunch' for anything larger. I know this is true in "early" Japanese, which had words for 1 (hitotsu) to 20 (hatachi), though later obtaining a more expansive number alphabet from the Chinese, via the Koreans.

That reminds me, however, of how when the man who discovered the zero was praised for his work, he is said to have replied that it was nothing.

48 posted on 07/07/2020 9:04:58 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Altura Ct.
.....and apparently is studying for a PhD at Rutgers.

In her case this stands for Pure Horse Dung.....

49 posted on 07/07/2020 9:05:29 AM PDT by Mopp4
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To: Altura Ct.

2+2 = whatever you want it to be.


50 posted on 07/07/2020 9:09:27 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: Altura Ct.
Marshall, who includes her pronouns in her bio, lists her occupation as “teacher, scholar, social justice change agent” and apparently is studying for a PhD at Rutgers.

I have an engineering degree from Rutgers. If they grant a PhD to someone who asserts that 2+2 does not equal 4, I may need to disavow that degree. I mean, nobody will think it's much of a credential anymore anyway so why not?

51 posted on 07/07/2020 9:10:54 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Altura Ct.

This is western math:

II + II = IV

This is Indus Valley math:

2+2=4


52 posted on 07/07/2020 9:14:51 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: VanShuyten
As anyone who has taken Anthropolgy 101, for many primitive cultures, 2+2= “many”.

I have no aspirations to transform the west into a primitive culture. Apprantly lefty social justice warriors think that it's easier to tear down the west than it is to elevate the people they claim to represent. Because leftists are bigots who ensnare minorities in a trap of unending poverty by convincing them that the low expectations leftists have of them are correct and they really are lesser.

53 posted on 07/07/2020 9:15:07 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Altura Ct.

btt


54 posted on 07/07/2020 9:16:06 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Altura Ct.

I bet if someone overcharged her on a bill (because 2 + 2 = 5), she would scream like a banshee.


55 posted on 07/07/2020 9:18:38 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: fishtank
This is western math: II + II = IV
This is Indus Valley math: 2+2=4

In this one instance at least, it is better to do what the Hindu.

56 posted on 07/07/2020 9:20:46 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Altura Ct.
“...let the pigmy who proclaims that a skyscraper needs no foundation after it reaches its fiftieth story, yank the base from under his building, not yours—let the cannibal who snarls that the freedom of man’s mind was needed to create an industrial civilization, but is not needed to maintain it, be given an arrowhead and bearskin, not a university chair of economics.

“Do you think they are taking you back to dark ages? They are taking you back to darker ages than any your history has known. Their goal is not the era of pre-science, but the era of pre-language. Their purpose is to deprive you of the concept on which man’s mind, his life and his culture depend: the concept of an objective reality. Identify the development of a human consciousness—and you will know the purpose of their creed.” -- Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged.”

57 posted on 07/07/2020 9:22:15 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Altura Ct.

All of our white scientists and mathematicians would not have been abe to land astronauts on the Moon without Black math. Remember that, Hollywood history is the real history, racists.


58 posted on 07/07/2020 9:25:28 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: KobraKai

Let’s see ...without white math we will have: planes that fall out of the sky, medicines that don’t work, research that won’t prove anything .....buildings that would topple, bridges that would collapse .... cars that won’t drive, electricity, running water .....basically, no civilization.

And that’s what they want so they can put their evil plan in place. Stinking evil devils.


59 posted on 07/07/2020 9:32:16 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: dfwgator

It’s almost as if these people really want to keep black people stupid, and at a disadvantage.
..............
Ya’ think? It’s too bad these “People-Of- color” groups ( did I use the proper PC term approved for 2020?) cheerfully promote the insanity which will keep them in poverty and inner city turmoil instead of standing up for their people to have choices for excellent education.


60 posted on 07/07/2020 9:32:22 AM PDT by boxlunch (The US Pravda ( MSM), Demcheviks, leftists, Chicomms, Soros. All in this together.)
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